A more efficient algorithm for perfect sorting by reversals

  • Authors:
  • Sèverine Bérard;Cedric Chauve;Christophe Paul

  • Affiliations:
  • Département de Mathématiques et d'Informatique Appliquée, INRA, Toulouse, France and Université Montpellier 2, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, F-34000 France;Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Comparative Genomics Laboratory, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada;CNRS, LIRMM, Université Montpellier 2, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe a new algorithm for the problem of perfect sorting a signed permutation by reversals. The worst-case time complexity of this algorithm is parameterized by the maximum prime degree d of the strong interval tree, i.e., f(d).n^O^(^1^). This improves the best known algorithm which complexity was based on a parameter always larger than or equal to d.