TY - GEN
T1 - Extracting best consensus motifs from positive and negative examples
AU - Tateishi, Erika
AU - Maruyama, Osamu
AU - Miyano, Satoru
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PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - We define the best consensus motif (BCM) problem motivated by the problem of extracting motifs from nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. A type over an alphabet Σ is a family Ω of subsets of Σ *. A motif π of type Ω is a string π=π1 ... πn of motif components, each of which stands for an element in Ω. The BCM problem for Ω is, given a yes-no sample S={(α (1),β(1),..., (α(m),β(m))} of pairs of strings in Σ* with α (i) ≠β(i) for 1 ≤ i ≤ m, to find a motif π of type Ω that maximizes the number of good pairs in S, where (α (i), β (i)) is good for π if π accepts α (i) and rejects β (i) We prove that the BCM problem is NP-complete even for a very simple type (Formula presented), which is used, in practice, for describing protein motifs in the PROSITE database. We also show that the NP-completeness of the problem does not change for the type Ω ∞=Ω1∪ {Σ+}∪{Σ[i,j]1≤i≤ j}, where Σ [i,j] is the set of strings over Σ of length between i and j Furthermore, for the BCM problem for Ω 1 we provide a polynomial-time greedy algorithm based on the probabilistic method. Its performance analysis shows an explicit approximation ratio of the algorithm.
AB - We define the best consensus motif (BCM) problem motivated by the problem of extracting motifs from nucleic acid and amino acid sequences. A type over an alphabet Σ is a family Ω of subsets of Σ *. A motif π of type Ω is a string π=π1 ... πn of motif components, each of which stands for an element in Ω. The BCM problem for Ω is, given a yes-no sample S={(α (1),β(1),..., (α(m),β(m))} of pairs of strings in Σ* with α (i) ≠β(i) for 1 ≤ i ≤ m, to find a motif π of type Ω that maximizes the number of good pairs in S, where (α (i), β (i)) is good for π if π accepts α (i) and rejects β (i) We prove that the BCM problem is NP-complete even for a very simple type (Formula presented), which is used, in practice, for describing protein motifs in the PROSITE database. We also show that the NP-completeness of the problem does not change for the type Ω ∞=Ω1∪ {Σ+}∪{Σ[i,j]1≤i≤ j}, where Σ [i,j] is the set of strings over Σ of length between i and j Furthermore, for the BCM problem for Ω 1 we provide a polynomial-time greedy algorithm based on the probabilistic method. Its performance analysis shows an explicit approximation ratio of the algorithm.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-60922-9_19
DO - 10.1007/3-540-60922-9_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84948184174
SN - 9783540609223
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 219
EP - 230
BT - STACS 1996 - 13th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Proceedings
A2 - Puech, Claude
A2 - Reischuk, Rudiger
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 13th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 1996
Y2 - 22 February 1996 through 24 February 1996
ER -