d would be compared with every other shred.</p>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Influence_of_technological_changes">Influence of technological changes</span></h2>
<p>The complexity of sequence assembly is driven by two major factors: the number of fragments and their lengths. While more and longer fragments allow better identification of sequence overlaps, they also pose problems as the underlying algorithms show quadratic or even exponential complexity behaviour to both number of fragments and their leng