Pathgroups, a dynamic data structure for genome reconstruction problems
Author(s) -
Chunfang Zheng
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq255
Subject(s) - heuristics , computer science , heuristic , greedy algorithm , genome , set (abstract data type) , data structure , sequence (biology) , algorithm , scheme (mathematics) , theoretical computer science , data mining , computational biology , gene , artificial intelligence , biology , mathematics , genetics , programming language , operating system , mathematical analysis
Ancestral gene order reconstruction problems, including the median problem, quartet construction, small phylogeny, guided genome halving and genome aliquoting, are NP hard. Available heuristics dedicated to each of these problems are computationally costly for even small instances.
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