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  • 1Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. imran.rauf@uok.edu.pk

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Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Graph theory
  • Analytical chemistry

Background:

  • Mass spectrometry is a key high-throughput technique in metabolomics for analyzing small compounds.
  • Fragmentation trees offer automated analysis of mass spectra, but require solving complex graph problems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate new algorithms for the Maximum Colorful Subtree problem.
  • To improve the accuracy and efficiency of analyzing mass spectrometry fragmentation data.

Main Methods:

  • Introduction of new heuristics and an exact algorithm for the Maximum Colorful Subtree problem.
  • Evaluation against existing algorithms using real-world and artificial datasets.
  • Utilizing integer programming for the exact algorithm.

Main Results:

  • The proposed tree completion heuristic outperforms existing heuristics in performance.
  • The integer programming-based exact algorithm achieves optimal solutions with reasonable computation times.
  • The heuristic provides fast and accurate results for molecular formula determination.

Conclusions:

  • The developed heuristic offers a practical tool for molecular formula identification using fragmentation trees.
  • The exact algorithm is valuable for applications requiring precise structural information, such as tree alignments.