The efficiency of Simulated Annealing (SA), Rapid Chain Delineation (RCD) and Branch and Bounds (BB) algorithms was evaluated by a Monte Carlo method. Regarding the conditions appraised the Branch and Bounds showed to be the fastest among them. Both RCD and BB were 100% efficient. The efficiency of SA depends on the length of the linkage group to be ordered. For 5 and 10 the efficiency was 100%, for 15 it was 99.8% and for 20 it was 99.2%.
Simulated annealing; rapid chain delineation; branch and bound; molecular markers
