Self-indexing Based on LZ77

• Published in: Combinatorial Pattern Matching pp. 41 - 54
• Main Authors: Kreft, Sebastian, Navarro, Gonzalo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Binary Search; Phrase Boundary; Reverse Trie; Software Repository; Text Collection

We introduce the first self-index based on the Lempel-Ziv 1977 compression format (LZ77). It is particularly competitive for highly repetitive text collections such as sequence databases of genomes of related species, software repositories, versioned document collections, and temporal text databases...