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Approximate clustering of incomplete fingerprints

Figueroa, Andres ; Goldstein, Avraham ; Jiang, Tao ; Kurowski, Maciej ; Lingas, Andrzej LU and Persson, Mia LU (2008) In Journal of Discrete Algorithms 6(1). p.103-108
Abstract
We study the problem of clustering fingerprints with at most p missing values (CMV(p) for short) naturally arising in oligonucleotide fingerprinting, which is an efficient method for characterizing DNA clone libraries. We show that already CMV(2) is NP-hard. We also show that a greedy algorithm yields a min(1+lnn,2+plnl) approximation for CMV(p), and can be implemented to run in O(nl2p) time. We also introduce other variants of the problem of clustering incomplete fingerprints based on slightly different optimization criteria and show that they can be approximated in polynomial time with ratios 22p−1 and Click to view the MathML source, respectively.
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Journal of Discrete Algorithms
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1570-8667
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10.1016/j.jda.2007.01.004
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  abstract     = {{We study the problem of clustering fingerprints with at most p missing values (CMV(p) for short) naturally arising in oligonucleotide fingerprinting, which is an efficient method for characterizing DNA clone libraries. We show that already CMV(2) is NP-hard. We also show that a greedy algorithm yields a min(1+lnn,2+plnl) approximation for CMV(p), and can be implemented to run in O(nl2p) time. We also introduce other variants of the problem of clustering incomplete fingerprints based on slightly different optimization criteria and show that they can be approximated in polynomial time with ratios 22p−1 and Click to view the MathML source, respectively.}},
  author       = {{Figueroa, Andres and Goldstein, Avraham and Jiang, Tao and Kurowski, Maciej and Lingas, Andrzej and Persson, Mia}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  series       = {{Journal of Discrete Algorithms}},
  title        = {{Approximate clustering of incomplete fingerprints}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jda.2007.01.004}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jda.2007.01.004}},
  volume       = {{6}},
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