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Correcting gene tree by removal and modification
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Gene tree correction with respect to a given species tree is a problem that has been recently proposed in order to better understand the evolution of gene families. One of the combinatorial methods proposed to tackle with this problem aims to correct a gene tree by removing the minimum number of leaves/labels (Minimum Leaf Removal and Minimum Label Removal, respectively). The two problems have been shown to be APX-hard, and fixed-parameter tractable, when parameterized by the number of leaves/labels removed. In this paper, we focus on the approximation complexity of these two problems and we show that they are not approximable within factor blog m, where m is the number of leaves of the species tree and b>0 is a constant. Furthermore, we introduce and study two new variants of the problem, where the goal is the correction of a gene tree with the minimum number of leaf/label modifications (Minimum Leaf Modification and Minimum Label Modification, respectively). We show that the two modification problems, differently from the removal versions, are unlikely to be fixed-parameter tractable. More precisely, we prove that the Minimum Leaf Modification problem is W[1]-hard, when parameterized by the number of leaf modifications, and that the Minimum Label Modification problem is W[2]-hard, when parameterized by the number of label modifications.
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Beretta, S., Castelli, M., & Dondi, R. (2015). Correcting gene tree by removal and modification: Tractability and approximability. Journal Of Discrete Algorithms, 33, 115-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jda.2015.03.005
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Approximation complexity Computational biology Gene tree correction Gene tree reconciliation Parameterized complexity Theoretical Computer Science Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics Computational Theory and Mathematics