Problem 1160. Gene Sequence Contest: Retro

Created by Richard Zapor

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The Full Gene Sequence Rules and examples.
This Challenge is a replay opportunity of the 2000 GeneSeq Contest.
Brief Challenge statement: Given N segments of equal length, produce a single sequence of minimal length that must contain each individual segment. Repeated segments must occur at least once in the output Sequence. No rotations allowed.
The winning solution superbly exploited the features of strncmp.
Input: Segments % char array (N segments of equal length)
TCGG
GCAG
ATCG
CAGC
AATC
Output: Sequence % char
AATCGGCAGC
Scoring:
10*Time(sec) + 1000 *sum( Total_Lengths(i)/Original_Lengths(i)/Sequences) -1 )

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Binbin Qi on 8 Nov 2018

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Anton Kogios on 7 Oct 2022

There's an error in test 3:

Error using load Unable to read MAT-file /users/mss.system.MreHls/testsuite_GeneSeq_contest.mat. Not a binary MAT-file. Try load -ASCII to read as text. Error in Test3 (line 2) load testsuite_GeneSeq_contest

Michael Sisco on 19 Jan 2023

It is incredibly annoying to spend time solving a problem, only to find that the test suite is unable to run because of issues outside the submitted function. Fix the test suite or remove the problem.

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