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ArticleJournal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology2022

Efficient Minimum Flow Decomposition via Integer Linear Programming.

Fernando H C Dias, Lucia Williams, Brendan Mumey, Alexandru I Tomescu

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Article in Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  1. Minimum flow decomposition guided by saturating subflows.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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Fernando H C DiasDepartment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Lucia WilliamsSchool of Computing, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Brendan MumeySchool of Computing, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Alexandru I TomescuDepartment of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-5747-8350

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Minimum flow decomposition (MFD) is an NP-hard problem asking to decompose a network flow into a minimum set of paths (together with associated weights). Variants of it are powerful models in multiassembly problems in Bioinformatics, such as RNA assembly. Owing to its hardness, practical multiassembly tools either use heuristics or solve simpler, polynomial time-solvable versions of the problem, which may yield solutions that are not minimal or do not perfectly decompose the flow. Here, we provide the first fast and exact solver for MFD on acyclic flow networks, based on Integer Linear Programming (ILP). Key to our approach is an encoding of

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Computational BiologyProgramming, LinearAlgorithmsRNARNAflow decompositioninteger linear programmingmultiassembly and RNA assemblynetwork flow

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PMID36260412
PMCPMC9700332

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