In computer science, a suffix array is a sorted array of all suffixes of a string. It is a simple, yet powerful data structure which is used, among others, in full text indices, data compression algorithms and within the field of bioinformatics.
Suffix arrays were introduced by Manber & Myers (1990) as a simple, space efficient alternative to suffix trees. They have independently been discovered by Gonnet, Baeza-Yates & Snider (1992) under the name PAT array.
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