摘要 |
Disclosed is a method of encoding a tree structure and associated methods of traversing, manipulating and querying the tree. As tree structures are widely used in the field of computer science (as document formats like XML, as object trees of object-oriented programming languages, as XML and object databases etc), genetic analysis and other fields of science, the methods disclosed in this invention will be advantageous in analysing and indexing tree structures. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
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