Phylogenetic Trees Inherited
Time Limit: 10 Seconds Memory Limit: 32768 KB
Special Judge
Among other things, Computational Molecular Biology deals with processing
genetic sequences. Considering the evolutionary relationship of two
sequences, we can say that they are closely related if they do not differ
very much. We might represent the relationship by a tree, putting sequences
from ancestors above sequences from their descendants. Such trees are called
phylogenetic trees.
Whereas one task of phylogenetics is to infer a tree from given sequences,
we'll simplify things a bit and provide a tree structure - this will be a
complete binary tree. You'll be given the n leaves of the tree. Sure
you know, n is always a power of 2. Each leaf is a sequence of amino
acids (designated by the one-character-codes you can see in the figure).
All sequences will be of equal length l. Your task is to derive the
sequence of a common ancestor with minimal costs.
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The costs are determined as follows: every inner node of the tree is marked with a sequence of length l, the cost of an edge of the tree is the number of positions at which the two sequences at the ends of the edge differ, the total cost is the sum of the costs at all edges. The sequence of a common ancestor of all sequences is then found at the root of the tree. An optimal common ancestor is a common ancestor with minimal total costs.
Input
The input file contains several test cases. Each test case starts with two integers n and l, denoting the number of sequences at the leaves and their length, respectively. Input is terminated by n=l=0. Otherwise, 1<=n<=1024 and 1<=l<=1000. Then follow n words of length l over the amino acid alphabet. They represent the leaves of a complete binary tree, from left to right.Output
For each test case, output a line containing some optimal common ancestor and the minimal total costs.Sample Input
4 3 AAG AAA GGA AGA 4 3 AAG AGA AAA GGA 4 3 AAG GGA AAA AGA 4 1 A R A R 2 1 W W 2 1 W Y 1 1 Q 0 0
Sample Output
AGA 3 AGA 4 AGA 4 R 2 W 0 Y 1 Q 0Submit
Source: University of Ulm Local Contest 2000