The approximability of the String Barcoding problem

<p>Abstract</p> <p>The String Barcoding (SBC) problem, introduced by Rash and Gusfield (RECOMB, 2002), consists in finding a minimum set of substrings that can be used to distinguish between all members of a set of given strings. In a computational biology context, the given string...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rizzi Romeo, Lancia Giuseppe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-08-01
Series:Algorithms for Molecular Biology
Online Access:http://www.almob.org/content/1/1/12