@inproceedings{1fef852f70c344f4bc8af110500f292b,
title = "A new paradigm for identifying reconciliation-scenario altering mutations conferring environmental adaptation",
abstract = "An important goal in microbial computational genomics is to identify crucial events in the evolution of a gene that severely alter the duplication, loss and mobilization patterns of the gene within the genomes in which it disseminates. In this paper, we formalize this microbiological goal as a new pattern-matching problem in the domain of Gene tree and Species tree reconciliation, denoted “Reconciliation-Scenario Altering Mutation (RSAM) Discovery”. We propose an O(m · n · k) time algorithm to solve this new problem, where m and n are the number of vertices of the input Gene tree and Species tree, respectively, and k is a user-specified parameter that bounds from above the number of optimal solutions of interest. The algorithm first constructs a hypergraph representing the k highest scoring reconciliation scenarios between the given Gene tree and Species tree, and then interrogates this hypergraph for subtrees matching a pre-specified RSAM Pattern. Our algorithm is optimal in the sense that the number of hypernodes in the hypergraph can be lower bounded by Ω(m · n · k). We implement the new algorithm as a tool, denoted RSAM-finder, and demonstrate its application to the identification of RSAMs in toxins and drug resistance elements across a dataset spanning hundreds of species.",
keywords = "Gene tree, Reconciliation, Species tree",
author = "Roni Zoller and Meirav Zehavi and Michal Ziv-Ukelson",
note = "Funding Information: Funding Supported by ISF grants no. 1176/18 and no. 939/18. This work was supported by the Lynn and William Frankel Center for Computer Science. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Roni Zoller, Meirav Zehavi, and Michal Ziv-Ukelson; licensed under Creative Commons License CC-BY; 19th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2019 ; Conference date: 08-09-2019 Through 10-09-2019",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4230/LIPIcs.WABI.2019.9",
language = "American English",
series = "Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs",
publisher = "Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing",
pages = "9:1--9:13",
editor = "Huber, {Katharina T.} and Dan Gusfield",
booktitle = "19th International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2019",
address = "Germany",
}