Faster pattern matching algorithm for arc-annotated sequences

  • Authors:
  • Takuya Kida

  • Affiliations:
  • Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Federation over the Web
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present an improvement of pattern matching algorithm for arc-annotated sequences. Arc-annotated sequences are used for representing the structural information, e.g., RNA and protein sequences in molecular biology. Given two sequences with arcs, a text of length n and a pattern of length m, the problem is to determine whether the pattern is an arc-preserving subsequence of the text. Although it is NP-complete in a general case, an O(mn) algorithm has been proposed if the given sequences have no crossing-arcs. Our contribution is to revise it and to obtain more simple one. We also present our experimental results of the running time.