MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS OF DNA RESTRICTION MAPPING PROBLEMS

被引:24
作者
SCHMITT, W [1 ]
WATERMAN, MS [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV SO CALIF, DEPT MATH, LOS ANGELES, CA 90089 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家卫生研究院;
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10.1016/0196-8858(91)90028-H
中图分类号
O29 [应用数学];
学科分类号
070104 ;
摘要
The construction of a restriction map of a DNA molecule from fragment length data is known to be NP hard. However, it is also known that under a simple model of randomness the number of solutions to the mapping problem increases exponentially with the length of the DNA molecule. In this paper we define a hierarchy of equivalence relations on the set of all solutions to the mapping problem and study the combinatorics and characterization of the equivalence classes. © 1991.
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页码:412 / 427
页数:16
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