Title

Computational Experience With A Parallel Algorithm For Tetrangle Inequality Bound Smoothing

Abstract

Determining molecular structure from interatomic distances is an important and challenging problem. Given a molecule with n atoms, lower and upper bounds on interatomic distances can usually be obtained only for a small subset of the n(n-1)/2 atom pairs, using NMR. Given the bounds so obtained on the distances between of some of the atom pairs, it is often useful to compute tighter bounds on all the n(n-1)/2 pairwise distances. This process is referred to as bound smoothing. The initial lower and upper bounds for the pairwise distances not measured are usually assumed to be 0 and ∞. One method for bound smoothing is to use the limits imposed by the triangle inequality. The distance bounds so obtained can often be tightened further by applying the tetrangle inequality - the limits imposed on the six pairwise distances among a set of four atoms (instead of three for the triangle inequalities). The tetrangle inequality is expressed by the Cayley-Menger determinants. For every quadruple of atoms, each pass of the tetrangle inequality bound smoothing procedure finds upper and lower limits on each of the six distances in the quadruple. Applying the tetrangle inequalities to each of the (4/(n)) quadruples requires O (n4) time. Here, we propose a parallel algorithm for bound smoothing employing the tetrangle inequality. Each pass of our algorithm requires O (n3 log n) time on a CREW PRAM (Concurrent Read Exclusive Write Parallel Random Access Machine) with O (n/log n) processors. An implementation of this parallel algorithm on the Intel Paragon XP/S and its performance are also discussed.

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Publication Title

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volume

61

Issue

5

Number of Pages

987-1008

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1006/bulm.1999.0123

Socpus ID

0032884742 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0032884742

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