title: Asymmetric exclusion process and extremal statistics of random sequences.
abstract: A mapping is established between sequence alignment, one of the most commonly used tools of computational biology, at a certain choice of scoring parameters and the asymmetric exclusion process, one of the few exactly solvable models of nonequilibrium physics. The statistical significance of sequence alignments is characterized through studying the total hopping current of the discrete time and space version of the asymmetric exclusion process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0319, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bundschuh
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D019992:Databases as Topic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017385:Sequence Homology; D012984:Software