• DocumentCode
    2526991
  • Title

    A polynomial algorithm for the minimum quartet inconsistency problem with O(n) quartet errors

  • Author

    Wu, Gang ; You, Jia-Huai ; Lin, Guohui

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta., Canada
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    8-11 Aug. 2005
  • Firstpage
    55
  • Lastpage
    56
  • Abstract
    We show that for the Minimum Quartet Inconsistency problem, if the number of quartet errors is O(n), where n is the number of taxa under consideration, then it can be solved in polynomial time. This improves the previously-best algorithmic result saying that if the number of quartet errors is at most (n-3)/2 then the problem can be solved in polynomial time.
  • Keywords
    biology computing; evolution (biological); genetics; polynomial approximation; minimum quartet inconsistency problem; polynomial algorithm; polynomial time; quartet errors; Assembly; Availability; Data analysis; Genetics; Genomics; Joining processes; Performance analysis; Phylogeny; Polynomials; Topology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2005. Workshops and Poster Abstracts. IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2442-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSBW.2005.14
  • Filename
    1540538