Divide and conquer: giving organelle context to genomic data

Divide and Conquer: Enriching Environmental Sequencing Data

BACKGROUND In environmental sequencing projects, a mix of DNA from a whole microbial community is fragmented and sequenced, with one of the possible goals being to reconstruct partial or complete genomes of members of the community. In communities with high diversity of species, a significant proportion of the sequences do not overlap any other fragment in the sample. This problem will arise no...

Divide and Conquer

An instance of the given problem is divided into easier instances of the same problem, which are solved recursively and then combined to create a solution to the original instance. Of course, divide and conquer is not suitable for every problem. A divide and conquer approach will only work if the problem is easily divided into a small number of easier sub-problems, and the solution to the entir...

Divide and (Iteratively) Conquer!

The Iterative Multi-Agent (IMA) Method works by breaking down a search problem into many sub-problems, each to be solved separately. Independent problem solving agents work on the sub-problems and use iteration to handle any interaction between the sub-problems. Each agent knows about a subset of the whole problem and cannot solve it all by itself. The agents, working in parallel, can use any m...

Cheaters divide and conquer

Three 'killer genes' in one species of fission yeast act selfishly and keep it reproductively isolated from a closely related species.

Divide-And-Conquer Sorting