Appeal No. 95-1682
Application 07/853,459
8. Apparatus for displaying similarities between
sequences of tokens on a display device comprising:
means (702) for producing the tokens in the se-
quences from data; and
means (704) for receiving the tokens and making a
dotplot (405) representing a comparison of each of the tokens
in one of the sequences with all of the tokens in another of
the sequences and providing the dotplot to the display device,
the apparatus being characterized in that:
the means for making the dotplot is able to make a
dotplot wherein each sequence of tokens being compared con-
tains at least n tokens, where n >> 10,000; and
the means for making the dotplot makes the dotplot
of a size such that the dotplot fits in its entirety on the
display device.
The references relied on by the Examiner are as
follows:
James Pustell et al. (Pustell), "A high speed, high capacity
homology matrix: zooming through SV40 and polyoma," 10 Nucleic
Acids Research, no. 15, 4765-4782 (1982)
Jacob V. Maizel, Jr. et al. (Maizel), "Enhanced graphic matrix
analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences," 78 Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, no. 12, 7665-7669 (December 1981)
Alfred V. Aho et al. (Aho), "Compilers - Principles, Tech-
niques, and Tools," 83-88 (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.,
1986)
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