Guillaume Fertin1, Géraldine Jean1, Eric Tannier2,3. 1. LS2N UMR CNRS 6004, Université de Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes, France. 2. Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria) Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, 655 avenue de l'Europe, 38330 Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France. 3. CNRS, Laboratoire de Biomètrie et Biologie Evolutive UMR5558, Univ Lyon, Université Lyon 1, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne France.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Combinatorial works on genome rearrangements have so far ignored the influence of intergene sizes, i.e. the number of nucleotides between consecutive genes, although it was recently shown decisive for the accuracy of inference methods (Biller et al. in Genome Biol Evol 8:1427-39, 2016; Biller et al. in Beckmann A, Bienvenu L, Jonoska N, editors. Proceedings of Pursuit of the Universal-12th conference on computability in Europe, CiE 2016, Lecture notes in computer science, vol 9709, Paris, France, June 27-July 1, 2016. Berlin: Springer, p. 35-44, 2016). In this line, we define a new genome rearrangement model called wDCJ, a generalization of the well-known double cut and join (or DCJ) operation that modifies both the gene order and the intergene size distribution of a genome. RESULTS: We first provide a generic formula for the wDCJ distance between two genomes, and show that computing this distance is strongly NP-complete. We then propose an approximation algorithm of ratio 4/3, and two exact ones: a fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm and an integer linear programming (ILP) formulation. CONCLUSIONS: We provide theoretical and empirical bounds on the expected growth of the parameter at the center of our FPT and ILP algorithms, assuming a probabilistic model of evolution under wDCJ, which shows that both these algorithms should run reasonably fast in practice.
BACKGROUND: Combinatorial works on genome rearrangements have so far ignored the influence of intergene sizes, i.e. the number of nucleotides between consecutive genes, although it was recently shown decisive for the accuracy of inference methods (Biller et al. in Genome Biol Evol 8:1427-39, 2016; Biller et al. in Beckmann A, Bienvenu L, Jonoska N, editors. Proceedings of Pursuit of the Universal-12th conference on computability in Europe, CiE 2016, Lecture notes in computer science, vol 9709, Paris, France, June 27-July 1, 2016. Berlin: Springer, p. 35-44, 2016). In this line, we define a new genome rearrangement model called wDCJ, a generalization of the well-known double cut and join (or DCJ) operation that modifies both the gene order and the intergene size distribution of a genome. RESULTS: We first provide a generic formula for the wDCJ distance between two genomes, and show that computing this distance is strongly NP-complete. We then propose an approximation algorithm of ratio 4/3, and two exact ones: a fixed-parameter tractable (FPT) algorithm and an integer linear programming (ILP) formulation. CONCLUSIONS: We provide theoretical and empirical bounds on the expected growth of the parameter at the center of our FPT and ILP algorithms, assuming a probabilistic model of evolution under wDCJ, which shows that both these algorithms should run reasonably fast in practice.
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Keywords:
Algorithms; DCJ; Genome rearrangements; Intergenic regions
Authors: Klairton L Brito; Andre R Oliveira; Alexsandro O Alexandrino; Ulisses Dias; Zanoni Dias Journal: Algorithms Mol Biol Date: 2021-12-29 Impact factor: 1.405