Analyzing sets of phylogenetic trees using metrics

Damian Bogdanowicz. "Analyzing sets of phylogenetic trees using metrics." Applicationes Mathematicae 38.1 (2011): 1-16. <http://eudml.org/doc/280000>.

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abstract = {The reconstruction of evolutionary trees is one of the primary objectives in phylogenetics. Such a tree represents historical evolutionary relationships between different species or organisms. Tree comparisons are used for multiple purposes, from unveiling the history of species to deciphering evolutionary associations among organisms and geographical areas. In this paper, we describe a general method for comparing phylogenetic trees and give some basic properties of the Matching Split metric, which is a special case of a general definition. We focus on four metrics for binary unrooted trees. We present results of a computational experiment concerning an application of those metrics to estimating the quality of a phylogenetic signal.},
author = {Damian Bogdanowicz},
journal = {Applicationes Mathematicae},
keywords = {phylogenetic tree; phylogenetic tree metric; splits; minimum weight perfect matching; matching Split distance},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
pages = {1-16},
title = {Analyzing sets of phylogenetic trees using metrics},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/280000},
volume = {38},
year = {2011},
}

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AB - The reconstruction of evolutionary trees is one of the primary objectives in phylogenetics. Such a tree represents historical evolutionary relationships between different species or organisms. Tree comparisons are used for multiple purposes, from unveiling the history of species to deciphering evolutionary associations among organisms and geographical areas. In this paper, we describe a general method for comparing phylogenetic trees and give some basic properties of the Matching Split metric, which is a special case of a general definition. We focus on four metrics for binary unrooted trees. We present results of a computational experiment concerning an application of those metrics to estimating the quality of a phylogenetic signal.
LA - eng
KW - phylogenetic tree; phylogenetic tree metric; splits; minimum weight perfect matching; matching Split distance
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