hdu 1560 DNA sequence(迭代加深搜索)

DNA sequence
Time Limit: 15000/5000 MS (Java/Others) Memory Limit: 32768/32768 K (Java/Others)
Total Submission(s): 1296 Accepted Submission(s): 648

Problem Description
The twenty-first century is a biology-technology developing century. We know that a gene is made of DNA. The nucleotide bases from which DNA is built are A(adenine), C(cytosine), G(guanine), and T(thymine). Finding the longest common subsequence between DNA/Protein sequences is one of the basic problems in modern computational molecular biology. But this problem is a little different. Given several DNA sequences, you are asked to make a shortest sequence from them so that each of the given sequence is the subsequence of it.

For example, given “ACGT”,“ATGC”,“CGTT” and “CAGT”, you can make a sequence in the following way. It is the shortest but may be not the only one.

Input
The first line is the test case number t. Then t test cases follow. In each case, the first line is an integer n ( 1<=n<=8 ) represents number of the DNA sequences. The following k lines contain the k sequences, one per line. Assuming that the length of any sequence is between 1 and 5.

Output
For each test case, print a line containing the length of the shortest sequence that can be made from these sequences.

Sample Input
1 4 ACGT ATGC CGTT CAGT

Sample Output
8

题意：

从ｎ个串中找出一个最短的公共串,，该公共串对于n个字符串不要求连续，即只要保持相对顺序就好。
解题：

用迭代加深搜索，就是限制DFS的深度，若搜不到答案，则加深深度，重新搜索，这样就防止了随着深度不断加深而进行的盲目搜索，而且，对于这种求最短长度之类的题目，只要找到可行解，即是最优解了。

#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
 
char str[10][10];//记录n个字符串
int n,ans,deep,size[10];
char DNA[4]={'A','C','G','T'};//一共四种可能
 
void dfs(int cnt,int len[])
{
    if(cnt > deep)//大于限制的深度，不用往下搜索
        return;
    int maxx = 0;//预计还要匹配的字符串的最大长度
    for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
    {
        int t = size[i]-len[i];
        if(t>maxx)
            maxx = t;
    }
    if(maxx==0)//条件全部满足即为最优解
    {
        ans = cnt;
        return;
    }
    if(cnt + maxx > deep)
        return;
    for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
    {
        int pos[10];
        int flag = 0;
        for(int j=0;j<n;j++)
        {
            if(str[j][len[j]]==DNA[i])
            {
                flag = 1;
                pos[j] = len[j]+1;
            }
            else
                pos[j]=len[j];
        }
        if(flag)
            dfs(cnt+1,pos);
        if(ans!=-1)
            break;
    }
}
 
int main()
{
    int t;
    cin>>t;
    while(t--)
    {
        cin>>n;
        int maxn = 0;
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
            cin>>str[i];
            size[i] = strlen(str[i]);
            if(size[i]>maxn)
                maxn = size[i];
        }
        ans = -1;
        deep = maxn;
        int pos[10] = {0};//记录n个字符串目前匹配到的位置
        while(1)
        {
            dfs(0,pos);
            if(ans!=-1)
                break;
            deep++;//加深迭代
        }
        cout<<ans<<endl;
    }
    return 0;
}