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    • Minimum flow decomposition is crucial for multi-assembly tasks like metagenome and transcriptome assembly.
    • Existing heuristics for this NP-hard problem yield suboptimal results on complex graphs due to unresolved flow equations.

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    • To develop an improved algorithm for minimum flow decomposition.
    • To enhance the resolution of flow equations for more accurate genomic sequence reconstruction.

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    • Revisiting the theoretical framework of flow decomposition.
    • Extending equation-resolving mechanisms to jointly model all graph equations.
    • Implementing safe merge operations for iterative graph simplification.

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    • The new algorithm substantially improves decomposition quality compared to existing heuristics.
    • Near-optimal solutions are achieved for complex graphs.
    • The algorithm runs orders of magnitude faster than Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulations.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed method offers a significant advancement in minimum flow decomposition for bioinformatics applications.
    • The algorithm provides a fast and accurate solution for reconstructing genomic sequences from mixed samples.