A new constrained edit distance between quotiented ordered trees

  • Authors:
  • Aïda Ouangraoua;Pascal Ferraro

  • Affiliations:
  • LaBRI - Université de Bordeaux 1, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France;LaBRI - Université de Bordeaux 1, 351 Cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a dynamic programming algorithm to compare two quotiented ordered trees using a constrained edit distance. An ordered tree is a tree in which the left-to-right order among siblings is significant. A quotiented ordered tree is an ordered tree T with an equivalence relation on vertices and such that, when the equivalence classes are collapsed to super-nodes, the graph so obtained is an ordered tree as well. Based on an algorithm proposed by Zhang and Shasha [K. Zhang, D. Shasha, Simple fast algorithms for the editing distance between trees and related problems, SIAM Journal on Computing 18 (6) (1989) 1245-1262] and introducing new notations, we describe a tree edit distance between quotiented ordered trees preserving equivalence relations on vertices during computation which works in polynomial time. Its application to RNA secondary structures comparison is finally presented.