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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform. 2020 Dec 8;17(6):2074–2085. doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2019.2913368
10–11: A threshold of 0.5 is applied to the similarity values for each input header to find the candidate output headers and the candidates are sorted by their descending similarity values.
12–14: For each input header, our algorithm finds the output header with the highest similarity value.
15–17: If the output header is not used for any previous match, the match between the current input header and output header is taken while storing its similarity value.
18–20: If the output header has already been used for a previous input header (prevMatch in the algorithm), their similarity values are compared.
21–24: If the current input header has a higher similarity value, its match is accepted while discarding the match of previous input header. Then a match for this previous input header is found in a recursive way.
12–14: If the current input header has a lower or equal similarity value, it is matched with the next candidate output header following the same rules (continuation of the for loop in the algorithm).