On the approximability of comparing genomes with duplicates

Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-53

  Angibaud, Sébastien ^a   Fertin, Guillaume ^a   Rusu, Irena ^a   Thévenin, Annelyse ^b   Vialette, Stéphane ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE EN COMMUNICATIONS ET CYBERNÉTIQUE DE NANTES   (France)

^b Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Adjacencies; Approximation algorithms; APX hardness; Breakpoints; Common intervals; Conserved intervals; Duplicate genes; Genome rearrangements

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349742235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15261719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00175     Document Type: Article

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