Inapproximability of (1,2)-exemplar distance

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Bulteau;Minghui Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes-Atlantique (LINA), UMR CNRS 6241, Université de Nantes, Nantes Cedex 3, France;Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, UT

  • Venue:
  • ISBRA'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Bioinformatics Research and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Given two genomes possibly with duplicate genes, the exemplar distance problem is that of removing all but one copy of each gene in each genome, so as to minimize the distance between the two reduced genomes according to some measure. Let (s ,t )-Exemplar Distance denote the exemplar distance problem on two genomes G 1 and G 2 where each gene occurs at most s times in G 1 and at most t times in G 2 . We show that the simplest non-trivial variant of the exemplar distance problem, (1,2)-Exemplar Distance, is already hard to approximate for a wide variety of distance measures, including popular genome rearrangement measures such as adjacency disruptions and signed reversals, and classic string edit distance measures such as Levenshtein and Hamming distances.