Minimum Common String Partition (MCSP) and related problems are of interest in, e.g., comparative genomics, DNA fingerprint assembly, and ortholog assignment. Given two strings with equal symbol content, the problem is to partition one string into k blocks, k as small as possible, and to permute them so as to obtain the other string. MCSP is NP-hard, and only approximation algorithms are known. Here we show that MCSP is fixed-parameter tractable in suitable parameters, so that practical instances can be efficiently solved to optimality. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
CITATION STYLE
Damaschke, P. (2008). Minimum common string partition parameterized. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5251 LNBI, pp. 87–98). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87361-7_8
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.