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similarity search

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MC-Cons II: Attack of the look-alike

Description

This is a multiobjective similarity search algorithm based on the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II).

Quick start

Examples are available in the examples folder.

Documentation

Documentation is available in the doc folder.

Use case

input

  • n sets of RNA sequences
  • candidate structures for each of them
  • m distance functions (at least 2, but too much will make results crappy)

output

  • s sets of n structures (s>=1) that are non-dominated according to distance functions.

Limitations

  • distance functions must be symmetric
  • output is not deterministic
  • all the limitations of NSGA-II

Dependency

Authors

Gabriel C-Parent did most of the software and design.

Stefanie Schirmer extracted test data and helped with validation and documentation.

License

All software is distributed under MIT licence.

Original MC-Cons

Succint description in this supplementary material.