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Discrete renewal theory is generalized to study the occurrence of a collection of patterns in random sequences, where a renewal is defined to be the occurrence of one of the patterns in the collection which does not overlap an earlier renewal. The action of restriction enzymes on DNA sequences provided motivation for this work. Related results of Guibas and Odlyzko are discussed.
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Breen et al. (1985) studied this question.
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