Sharp tractability borderlines for finding connected motifs in vertex-colored graphs

Michael R. Fellows, Guillaume Fertin, Danny Hermelin, Stéphane Vialette

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Abstract

We study the problem of finding occurrences of motifs in vertex-colored graphs, where a motif is a multiset of colors, and an occurrence of a motif is a subset of connected vertices whose multiset of colors equals the motif. This problem has applications in metabolic network analysis, an important area in bioinformatics. We give two positive results and three negative results that together draw sharp borderlines between tractable and intractable instances of the problem.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomata, Languages and Programming - 34th International Colloquium, ICALP 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages340-351
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540734198, 9783540734192
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event34th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2007 - Wroclaw, Poland
Duration: 9 Jul 200713 Jul 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4596 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference34th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2007
Country/TerritoryPoland
CityWroclaw
Period9/07/0713/07/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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