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An Exact Mathematical Programming Approach to Multiple RNA Sequence-Structure Alignmen

Markus Bauer, Gunnar W. Klau, and Knut Reinert – 2007

One of the main tasks in computational biology is the computation of alignments of genomic sequences to reveal their commonalities. In case of DNA or protein sequences, sequence information alone is usually sufficient to compute reliable alignments. RNA molecules, however, build spatial conformations---the secondary structure---that are more conserved than the actual sequence. Hence, computing reliable alignments of RNA molecules has to take into account the secondary structure. We present a novel framework for the computation of exact multiple sequence-structure alignments: We give a graph-theoretic representation of the sequence-structure alignment problem and phrase it as an integer linear program. We identify a class of constraints that make the problem easier to solve and relax the original integer linear program in a Lagrangian manner. Experiments on a recently published benchmark show that our algorithms has a comparable performance than more costly dynamic programming algorithms, and outperforms all other approaches in terms of solution quality with an increasing number of input sequences.

Titel
An Exact Mathematical Programming Approach to Multiple RNA Sequence-Structure Alignmen
Verfasser
Markus Bauer, Gunnar W. Klau, and Knut Reinert
Verlag
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Computer Science
Ort
Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Datum
2007-03
Kennung
B-07-07
Sprache
eng
Art
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