Suffix tree

A suffix tree is a data structure that efficiently represents all possible suffixes of a given string in a compressed trie format. It allows for quick substring searches and pattern matching, making it valuable in various applications such as genome research, text processing, and information retrieval. The construction of suffix trees can be done using algorithms like Ukkonen's (online) or McCreight's (offline). These structures offer memory efficiency and handle large texts well but may require significant time to build for very long strings. Despite this, their applications include pattern matching, finding repeated substrings, computing longest common prefixes, and are widely used in fields like bioinformatics and data compression.