Hüffner Falk, Niedermeier Rolf, Wernicke Sebastian
Institut für Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
Methods Mol Biol. 2008;453:395-421. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-429-6_21.
Fixed-parameter algorithms can efficiently find optimal solutions to some computationally hard (NP-hard) problems. This chapter surveys five main practical techniques to develop such algorithms. Each technique is circumstantiated by case studies of applications to biological problems. It also presents other known bioinformatics-related applications and gives pointers to experimental results.