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BMCBI
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Recrafting the neighbor-joining method
Background: The neighbor-joining method by Saitou and Nei is a widely used method for constructing phylogenetic trees. The formulation of the method gives rise to a canonical (n3)...
Thomas Mailund, Gerth Stølting Brodal, Rolf...
COCOON
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Quartet-Based Phylogeny Reconstruction from Gene Orders
Abstract. Phylogenetic reconstruction from gene-rearrangement data is attracting increasing attention from biologists and computer scientists. Methods used in reconstruction includ...
Tao Liu, Jijun Tang, Bernard M. E. Moret
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Fast computation of distance estimators
Background: Some distance methods are among the most commonly used methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from sequence data. The input to a distance method is a distance m...
Isaac Elias, Jens Lagergren
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
GIGA: a simple, efficient algorithm for gene tree inference in the genomic age
Background: Phylogenetic relationships between genes are not only of theoretical interest: they enable us to learn about human genes through the experimental work on their relativ...
Paul D. Thomas
EMNLP
2007
13 years 8 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Diachronic Phonology
We present a probabilistic model of diachronic phonology in which individual word forms undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Our approach allows us ...
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang,...