Input: string S = AAGATATGATAGGAT.
Output: Maximal repeats such as GATA (as in positions 3 and 8), GAT (as in position 3, 8 and 13) and so on...
A maximal repeat is a substring t occurs k>1 times in S, and if t is extended to left or right, it will occur less than k times.
An internal node’s leaf descendants are suffixes, each of which has a left character.
If the left characters of all leaf descendants are not all identical, it’s called a “left-diverse” node.
Maximal repeats is left-diverse internal nodes.
Build a suffix tree and then do a DFS (depth first search) on the tree
For each leaf, label it with its left character
For each internal node:
If at least one child is labelled with *, then label it with *
Else if its children’s labels are diverse, label with *.
Else then all children have same label, copy it to current node
Is the above idea is correct? How does the pseudo-code to be? Then I can try to write programming myself.