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ArticleBMC genomics2016

A new algorithm for "the LCS problem" with application in compressing genome resequencing data.

Richard Beal, Tazin Afrin, Aliya Farheen, Donald Adjeroh

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Richard BealLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. r.beal@computer.org.
Tazin AfrinLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Aliya FarheenLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Donald AdjerohLane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

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Abstract

backgroundThe longest common subsequence (LCS) problem is a classical problem in computer science, and forms the basis of the current best-performing reference-based compression schemes for genome resequencing data.

methodsFirst, we present a new algorithm for the LCS problem. Using the generalized suffix tree, we identify the common substrings shared between the two input sequences. Using the maximal common substrings, we construct a directed acyclic graph (DAG), based on which we determine the LCS as the longest path in the DAG. Then, we introduce an LCS-motivated reference-based compression scheme using the components of the LCS, rather than the LCS itself.

resultsOur basic scheme compressed the Homo sapiens genome (with an original size of 3,080,436,051 bytes) to 15,460,478 bytes. An improvement on the basic method further reduced this to 8,556,708 bytes, or an overall compression ratio of 360. This can be compared to the previous state-of-the-art compression ratios of 157 (Wang and Zhang, 2011) and 171 (Pinho, Pratas, and Garcia, 2011).

conclusionWe propose a new algorithm to address the longest common subsequence problem. Motivated by our LCS algorithm, we introduce a new reference-based compression scheme for genome resequencing data. Comparative results against state-of-the-art reference-based compression algorithms demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

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AlgorithmsSoftwareComputational BiologyGenome, HumanHumansSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNABiologyCompressionGenome resequencingLCSLongest common subsequenceLongest previous factorLPF

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