Date of Award
2008
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.Sc.
Department
Computer Science
Supervisor
A. Ngom
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
The non-unique probe selection problem consists of selecting both unique and nonunique oligonucleotide probes for oligonucleotide microarrays, which are widely used tools to identify viruses or bacteria in biological samples. The non-unique probes, designed to hybridize to at least one target, are used as alternatives when the design of unique probes is particularly difficult for the closely related target genes. The goal of the non-unique probe selection problem is to determine a smallest set of probes able to identify all targets present in a biological sample. This problem is known to be NP-hard. In this thesis, several novel heuristics are presented based on greedy strategy, genetic algorithms and evolutionary strategy respectively for the minimization problem arisen from the non-unique probe selection using the best-known ILP formulation. Experiment results show that our methods are capable of reducing the number of probes required over the state-of-the-art methods.
Recommended Citation
Wang, Lili, "Non-Unique oligonucleotide probe selection heuristics" (2008). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 8286.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/8286