I learned about this algorithm recently, because of an exercise in the Rosalind bioinformatics problems list: http://rosalind.info/problems/kmp/ http://rosalind

I learned about this algorithm recently, because of an exercise in the Rosalind bioinformatics problems list: http://rosalind.info/problems/kmp/ http://rosalind.info/problems/kmp/ There are tons of other interesting algorithms put in practice in different bioinformatics problems.