Comparison of Galled Trees

Galled trees, directed acyclic graphs that model evolutionary histories with isolated hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and the existence of polynomial time algorithms for their reconstruction. In this paper we establish to which extent several distance measures for the comparison of evolutionary networks are metrics for galled trees, and hence when they can be safely used to evaluate galled tree reconstruction methods.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: TCBB
• Authors: Gabriel Cardona, Mercè Llabrés, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel Valiente
• Keywords: Acyclic Graphs, Polynomial Time Algorithms, Software Engineering, TCBB 2011, Tree Reconstruction Methods