Pattern Matching Problems over 2-Interval Sets

  • Authors:
  • Stéphane Vialette

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CPM '02 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study the computational complexity of pattern matching problems over 2-interval sets. These problems occur in the context of molecular biology when a structured pattern, i.e., a RNA secondary structure, has to be found in a sequence. We show that the Pattern Matching OVER 2-INTERVAL SET problem is NP-complete for structured patterns where no pair precedes the other, but can be solved in polynomial time for several interesting special cases.