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Towards a better solution to the shortest common supersequence problem: the deposition and reduction algorithm

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Towards a better solution to the shortest common supersequence problem: the deposition and reduction algorithm
Background: The problem of finding a Shortest Common Supersequence (SCS) of a set of sequences is an important problem with applications in many areas. It is a key problem in biological sequences analysis. The SCS problem is well-known to be NP-complete. Many heuristic algorithms have been proposed. Some heuristics work well on a few long sequences (as in sequence comparison applications); others work well on many short sequences (as in oligo-array synthesis). Unfortunately, most do not work well on large SCS instances where there are many, long sequences. Results: In this paper, we present a Deposition and Reduction (DR) algorithm for solving large SCS instances of biological sequences. There are two processes in our DR algorithm: deposition process, and reduction process. The deposition process is responsible for generating a small set of common supersequences; and the reduction process shortens these common supersequences by removing some characters while preserving the common supe...
Kang Ning, Hon Wai Leong
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Updated 10 Dec 2010
Type Journal
Year 2006
Where BMCBI
Authors Kang Ning, Hon Wai Leong
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