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Arc-preserving subsequences of arc-annotated sequences

Computational Complexity 2011-04-25 v1

Abstract

Arc-annotated sequences are useful in representing the structural information of RNA and protein sequences. The longest arc-preserving common subsequence problem has been introduced as a framework for studying the similarity of arc-annotated sequences. In this paper, we consider arc-annotated sequences with various arc structures. We consider the longest arc preserving common subsequence problem. In particular, we show that the decision version of the 1-{\sc fragment LAPCS(crossing,chain)} and the decision version of the 0-{\sc diagonal LAPCS(crossing,chain)} are {\bf NP}-complete for some fixed alphabet Σ\Sigma such that Σ=2|\Sigma| = 2. Also we show that if Σ=1|\Sigma| = 1, then the decision version of the 1-{\sc fragment LAPCS(unlimited, plain)} and the decision version of the 0-{\sc diagonal LAPCS(unlimited, plain)} are {\bf NP}-complete.

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@article{arxiv.1104.4433,
  title  = {Arc-preserving subsequences of arc-annotated sequences},
  author = {Vladimir Yu. Popov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.4433},
  year   = {2011}
}
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