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A Duality Based 2-Approximation Algorithm for Maximum Agreement Forest

Authors: Frans Schalekamp, Anke van Zuylen, and Suzanne van der Ster

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 55, 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)


Abstract
We give a 2-approximation algorithm for the Maximum Agreement Forest problem on two rooted binary trees. This NP-hard problem has been studied extensively in the past two decades, since it can be used to compute the Subtree Prune-and-Regraft (SPR) distance between two phylogenetic trees. Our result improves on the very recent 2.5-approximation algorithm due to Shi, Feng, You and Wang (2015). Our algorithm is the first approximation algorithm for this problem that uses LP duality in its analysis.

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Frans Schalekamp, Anke van Zuylen, and Suzanne van der Ster. A Duality Based 2-Approximation Algorithm for Maximum Agreement Forest. In 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 55, pp. 70:1-70:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{schalekamp_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.70,
  author =	{Schalekamp, Frans and van Zuylen, Anke and van der Ster, Suzanne},
  title =	{{A Duality Based 2-Approximation Algorithm for Maximum Agreement Forest}},
  booktitle =	{43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2016)},
  pages =	{70:1--70:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-013-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{55},
  editor =	{Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis and Mitzenmacher, Michael and Rabani, Yuval and Sangiorgi, Davide},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.70},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-62149},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.70},
  annote =	{Keywords: Maximum agreement forest, phylogenetic tree, SPR distance, subtree prune-and-regraft distance, computational biology}
}
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