RNA multiple structural alignment with longest common subsequences

  • Authors:
  • Sergey Bereg;Binhai Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;Department of Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'05 Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a new model for RNA multiple sequence structural alignment based on the longest common subsequence. We consider both the off-line and on-line cases. For the off-line case, i.e., when the longest common subsequence is given as a linear graph with n vertices, we first present a polynomial O(n2) time algorithm to compute its maximum nested loop. We then consider a slightly different problem – the Maximum Loop Chain problem and present a factor-2 approximation which runs in O(n2.5) time. For the on-line case, i.e., given m RNA sequences of lengths n, compute the longest common subsequence of them such that this subsequence either induces a maximum nested loop or the maximum number of matches, we present efficient algorithms using dynamic programming when m is small.