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Combinatorial Search on Graphs Motivated by Bioinformatics Applications: A Brief Survey

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The goal of this paper is to present a brief survey of a collection of methods and results from the area of combinatorial search [1,8] focusing on graph reconstruction using queries of different type. The study is motivated by applications to genome sequencing.

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  1. Département d’Informatique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, 94235, France

    Mathilde Bouvel

  2. CompuGene Inc., Jamesburg, NJ, 08831, USA

    Vladimir Grebinski

  3. INRIA/LORIA, 615, rue du Jardin Botanique, B.P. 101, 54602, Villers-lès-Nancy, France

    Gregory Kucherov

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    Dieter Kratsch

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Bouvel, M., Grebinski, V., Kucherov, G. (2005). Combinatorial Search on Graphs Motivated by Bioinformatics Applications: A Brief Survey. In: Kratsch, D. (eds) Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science. WG 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3787. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11604686_2

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