I am a high school student, and this is a published paper that I wrote. If you want to read a shorter blog version of my work, please take a look at my blog: https://blog.liudaniel.com/n-grams-BK-trees. I enjoy working on bringing computer science algorithms to other fields like biology. I have also worked on algorithms for machine learning security.

The general problem that this paper addressed is grouping similar DNA/RNA sequences based on something known as a Unique Molecular Identifier, and then collapsing those groups into consensus sequences. This helps estimate the number of unique sequences while efficiently accounting for substitution errors in sequencing or PCR amplification.

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