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9<br />

INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING<br />

TECHNIQUES FOR DISCOVERING<br />

APPROXIMATE GENE CLUSTERS<br />

Sven Rahmann<br />

<strong>Bioinformatics</strong> for High-Throughput Technologies, Department of Computer Science 11,<br />

Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany<br />

Gunnar W. Klau<br />

Mathematics in Life Sciences Group, Department of Mathematics <strong>and</strong> Computer Science, Free<br />

University Berlin, <strong>and</strong> DFG Research Center Matheon “Mathematics for Key Technologies,”<br />

Berlin, Germany<br />

9.1 INTRODUCTION<br />

The chapter by Bergeron et al. in this volume introduces the concept of conserved<br />

gene clusters among several related organisms <strong>and</strong> motivates their study. We do not<br />

repeat the contents here; instead we assume that the reader is familiar with that chapter.<br />

It presents four principal combinatorial models for gene clusters, along with their<br />

algorithms: common intervals (“exact” gene clusters) versus max-gap clusters (a particular<br />

kind of “approximate” gene clusters) in permutations (assuming the same<br />

gene content in each genome, disallowing gene duplications) versus sequences (or<br />

strings, where different gene contents <strong>and</strong> duplicated or removed genes are allowed).<br />

The authors note that defining a general gene cluster model beyond max-gap clusters<br />

in strings that captures biological reality well is not an easy task. Even if we<br />

<strong>Bioinformatics</strong> <strong>Algorithms</strong>: <strong>Techniques</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Applications</strong>, Edited by Ion I. Mǎndoiu<br />

<strong>and</strong> Alex<strong>and</strong>er Zelikovsky<br />

Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.<br />

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