As more and more genomes are sequenced, evolutionary biologists are becoming increasingly interested in evolution at the level of whole genomes, in scenarios in which the genome e...
Krister M. Swenson, Mark Marron, Joel V. Earnest-D...
Background: The rapidly increasing availability of whole-genome sequences has enabled the study of whole-genome evolution. Evolutionary mechanisms based on genome rearrangements h...
Yu Lin, Vaibhav Rajan, Krister M. Swenson, Bernard...
Background: The estimation of the difference between two evolutionary distances within a triplet of homologs is a common operation that is used for example to determine which of t...
Christophe Dessimoz, Manuel Gil, Adrian Schneider,...
The paper studies the computational complexity and approximation algorithms for a new evolutionary distance between multi-chromosomal genomes introduced recently by Ferretti, Nade...
Bhaskar DasGupta, Tao Jiang, Sampath Kannan, Ming ...
Sorting by reversals is an important problem in inferring the evolutionary relationship between two genomes. The problem of sorting unsigned permutation has been proven to be NP-ha...