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An Efficient Dynamic Programming Algorithm for the Generalized LCS Problem with Multiple Substring Exclusion Constrains
In this paper, we consider a generalized longest common subsequence problem
with multiple substring exclusion constrains. For the two input sequences
and of lengths and , and a set of constrains
of total length , the problem is to find a common subsequence of and
excluding each of constrain string in as a substring and the length of
is maximized. The problem was declared to be NP-hard\cite{1}, but we
finally found that this is not true. A new dynamic programming solution for
this problem is presented in this paper. The correctness of the new algorithm
is proved. The time complexity of our algorithm is .Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1301.718
CAD Tools for DNA Micro-Array Design, Manufacture and Application
Motivation: As the human genome project progresses and some microbial and eukaryotic genomes are recognized, numerous biotechnological processes have attracted increasing number of biologists, bioengineers and computer scientists recently. Biotechnological processes profoundly involve production and analysis of highthroughput experimental data. Numerous sequence libraries of DNA and protein structures of a large number of micro-organisms and a variety of other databases related to biology and chemistry are available. For example, microarray technology, a novel biotechnology, promises to monitor the whole genome at once, so that researchers can study the whole genome on the global level and have a better picture of the expressions among millions of genes simultaneously. Today, it is widely used in many fields- disease diagnosis, gene classification, gene regulatory network, and drug discovery. For example, designing organism specific microarray and analysis of experimental data require combining heterogeneous computational tools that usually differ in the data format; such as, GeneMark for ORF extraction, Promide for DNA probe selection, Chip for probe placement on microarray chip, BLAST to compare sequences, MEGA for phylogenetic analysis, and ClustalX for multiple alignments. Solution: Surprisingly enough, despite huge research efforts invested in DNA array applications, very few works are devoted to computer-aided optimization of DNA array design and manufacturing. Current design practices are dominated by ad-hoc heuristics incorporated in proprietary tools with unknown suboptimality. This will soon become a bottleneck for the new generation of high-density arrays, such as the ones currently being designed at Perlegen [109]. The goal of the already accomplished research was to develop highly scalable tools, with predictable runtime and quality, for cost-effective, computer-aided design and manufacturing of DNA probe arrays. We illustrate the utility of our approach by taking a concrete example of combining the design tools of microarray technology for Harpes B virus DNA data
Efficient Parallel Output-Sensitive Edit Distance
Given two strings and , and a set of operations allowed to
edit the strings, the edit distance between and is the minimum number
of operations required to transform into . Sequentially, a standard
Dynamic Programming (DP) algorithm solves edit distance with cost.
In many real-world applications, the strings to be compared are similar and
have small edit distances. To achieve highly practical implementations, we
focus on output-sensitive parallel edit-distance algorithms, i.e., to achieve
asymptotically better cost bounds than the standard algorithm when
the edit distance is small. We study four algorithms in the paper, including
three algorithms based on Breadth-First Search (BFS) and one algorithm based on
Divide-and-Conquer (DaC). Our BFS-based solution is based on the Landau-Vishkin
algorithm. We implement three different data structures for the longest common
prefix (LCP) queries needed in the algorithm: the classic solution using
parallel suffix array, and two hash-based solutions proposed in this paper. Our
DaC-based solution is inspired by the output-insensitive solution proposed by
Apostolico et al., and we propose a non-trivial adaption to make it
output-sensitive. All our algorithms have good theoretical guarantees, and they
achieve different tradeoffs between work (total number of operations), span
(longest dependence chain in the computation), and space.
We test and compare our algorithms on both synthetic data and real-world
data. Our BFS-based algorithms outperform the existing parallel edit-distance
implementation in ParlayLib in all test cases. By comparing our algorithms, we
also provide a better understanding of the choice of algorithms for different
input patterns. We believe that our paper is the first systematic study in the
theory and practice of parallel edit distance
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