Simultaneous Identification of Duplications, Losses, and Lateral Gene Transfers

  • Authors:
  • Zhi-Zhong Chen;Fei Deng;Lusheng Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Tokyo Denki University, Hatoyama;City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We give a fixed-parameter algorithm for the problem of enumerating all minimum-cost LCA-reconciliations involving gene duplications, gene losses, and lateral gene transfers (LGTs) for a given species tree S and a given gene tree G. Our algorithm can work for the weighted version of the problem, where the costs of a gene duplication, a gene loss, and an LGT are left to the user's discretion. The algorithm runs in O(m+3^{k/c} n) time, where m is the number of vertices in S, n is the number of vertices in G, c is the smaller between a gene duplication cost and an LGT cost, and k is the minimum cost of an LCA-reconciliation between S and G. The time complexity is indeed better if the cost of a gene loss is greater than 0. In particular, when the cost of a gene loss is at least 0.614c, the running time of the algorithm is O(m+2.78^{k/c}n).