A variant of the tandem duplication — random loss model of genome rearrangement

  • Authors:
  • Mathilde Bouvel;Dominique Rossin

  • Affiliations:
  • LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, Case 7014, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France;LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, Case 7014, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In [K. Chaudhuri, K. Chen, R. Mihaescu, S. Rao, On the tandemduplication-random loss model of genome rearrangement, in: SODA,2006, pp. 564-570], Chaudhuri, Chen, Mihaescu and Rao studyalgorithmic properties of the tandem duplication - randomloss model of genome rearrangement, well-known in evolutionarybiology. In their model, the cost of one step of duplication-lossof width k is αk forα=1 or α≥2. In this paper, we study avariant of this model, where the cost of one step of width kis 1 if k≤K and ∞ if kK,for any value of the parameterKεℕ∪{∞}. We first show thatpermutations obtained after p steps of width K defineclasses of pattern-avoiding permutations. We also compute thenumbers of duplication-loss steps of width K necessary andsufficient to obtain any permutation of Sn, inthe worst case and on average. In this second part, we may alsoconsider the case K=K(n), a function of thesize n of the permutation on which the duplication-lossoperations are performed.