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Multiple Sequence Alignment as a Facility-Location Problem

Winfried Just, Gianluca Della Vedova

INFORMS Journal on Computing · 2004 · Volume 16 · Issue 4

DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1040.0093

Abstract

A connection is made between certain multiple-sequence alignment problems and facility-location problems, and the existence of a PTAS (polynomial-time approximation scheme) for these problems is shown. Moreover, it is shown that multiple sequence alignment with SP-score and fixed gap penalties is MAX SNP-hard.

Keywords

analysis of algorithms: computational complexity, facilities-equipment planning: location

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