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MST
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Parameterized Intractability of Distinguishing Substring Selection
A central question in computational biology is the design of genetic markers to distinguish between two given sets of (DNA) sequences. This question is formalized as the NP-comple...
Jens Gramm, Jiong Guo, Rolf Niedermeier
CPM
1999
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
On the Complexity of Positional Sequencing by Hybridization
In sequencing by hybridization (SBH), one has to reconstruct a sequence from its l-long substrings. SBH was proposed as an alternative to gel-based DNA sequencing approaches, but ...
Amir Ben-Dor, Itsik Pe'er, Ron Shamir, Roded Shara...
PODS
2000
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Selectivity Estimation for Boolean Queries
In a variety of applications ranging from optimizing queries on alphanumeric attributes to providing approximate counts of documents containing several query terms, there is an in...
Zhiyuan Chen, Flip Korn, Nick Koudas, S. Muthukris...