A sorting algorithm for karyotypes found in the Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations and Gene Fusions in Cancer inspired by a paper by Ron Shamir & Michal Ozery-Flato "On the frequency of genome rearrangement events in cancer karyotypes." (2007).
Michal Ozery-Flato and Ron Shamir. "On the frequency of genome rearrangement events in cancer karyotypes." In Proc 1st RECOMB Satellite Workshop in Computational Cancer Biology, vol. 17. 2007.