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Polyploidy Arithmetic

Aug 2026 · Bulletin of Mathematical Biology · Vol 88 · 0 citations · 29 references
Medicine

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This paper shows that finding the smallest number of hybridization events to explain a ploidy profile, or the hybrid number, is equivalent to solving the so-called addition sequence problem, and provides a greedy polynomial-time algorithm to decide whether a given profile can be realized by such a network.

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