MEASURING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN SEQUENCES - COMMENT

In commenting on Dijkstra and Taris, the author sketches three main to pics. First, he discusses the general concept and nature of alignment algorithms for sequence data. He then talks about the character and ut ility of the Dijkstra/Taris algorithm, a particular implementation of the alignment approach to sequence analysis. The article closes with a discussion of the general types of algorithms appropriate to stage th eories, to career patterns to common subsequences, and to continuous d ata.