Mapping DNA by stochastic relaxation
Advances in Applied Mathematics
Multiple solutions of DNA restriction mapping problems
Advances in Applied Mathematics
Approximation algorithms for NP-hard problems
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Paging for multi-core shared caches
Proceedings of the 3rd Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference
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We revisit the DOUBLE DIGEST problem, which occurs in sequencing of large DNA strings and consists of reconstructing the relative positions of cut sites from two different enzymes: we first show that DOUBLE DIGEST is strongly NP-complete, improving upon previous results that only showed weak NP-completeness. Even the (experimentally more meaningful) variation in which we disallow coincident cut sites turns out to be strongly NP-complete. In a second part, we model errors in data as they occur in real-life experiments: we propose several optimization variations of DOUBLE DIGEST that model partial cleavage errors. We then show APX-completeness for most of these variations. In a third part, we investigate these variations with the additional restriction that conincident cut sites are disallowed, and we show that it is NP-hard to even find feasible solutions in this case, thus making it impossible to guarantee any approximation ratio at all.