Perfect DCJ Rearrangement

  • Authors:
  • Sèverine Bérard;Annie Chateau;Cedric Chauve;Christophe Paul;Eric Tannier

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Montpellier 2, UMR AMAP, Montpellier, France F-34000 and CNRS, LIRMM, CNRS UMR55076, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France;CNRS, LIRMM, CNRS UMR55076, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France;Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada;CNRS, LIRMM, CNRS UMR55076, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France;INRIA, LBBE, CNRS UMR5558, Université de Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France

  • Venue:
  • RECOMB-CG '08 Proceedings of the international workshop on Comparative Genomics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the problem of transforming a multichromosomal genome into another using Double-Cut-and-Join (DCJ) operations. We introduce the notion of DCJ scenario that does not break families of common intervals (groups of genes co-localized in both genomes). Such scenarios are called perfect, and generalize the notion of perfect reversal scenarios. While perfect sorting by reversals is NP-hard if the family of common intervals is nested, we show that finding a shortest perfect DCJ scenario can be answered in polynomial time in this case. Moreover, while perfect sorting by reversals is easy when the family of common intervals is weakly separable, we show that the corresponding problem is NP-hard in the DCJ case. These contrast with previous comparisons between the reversal and DCJ models, that showed that most problems have similar complexity in both models.