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TCBB
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
A Metric on the Space of Reduced Phylogenetic Networks
—Phylogenetic networks are leaf-labeled, rooted, acyclic, directed graphs, that are used to model reticulate evolutionary histories. Several measures for quantifying the topologi...
Luay Nakhleh
CORR
2007
Springer
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Comparison of Tree-Child Phylogenetic Networks
Abstract—Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events, like recombination, hybridization...
Gabriel Cardona, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel...
CORR
2007
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Tripartitions do not always discriminate phylogenetic networks
Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of non-treelike evolutionary events, like recombination, hybridization, or later...
Gabriel Cardona, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
A perl package and an alignment tool for phylogenetic networks
Background: Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of evolutionary events acting at the population level, like recombin...
Gabriel Cardona, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel...
BMCBI
2008
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Extended Newick: it is time for a standard representation of phylogenetic networks
Background: Phylogenetic trees resulting from molecular phylogenetic analysis are available in Newick format from specialized databases but when it comes to phylogenetic networks,...
Gabriel Cardona, Francesc Rosselló, Gabriel...
ALMOB
2007
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Consistency of the Neighbor-Net Algorithm
Background: Neighbor-Net is a novel method for phylogenetic analysis that is currently being widely used in areas such as virology, bacteriology, and plant evolution. Given an inp...
David Bryant, Vincent Moulton, Andreas Spillner
LPNMR
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
PHYLO-ASP: Phylogenetic Systematics with Answer Set Programming
This note summarizes the use of Answer Set Programming to solve various computational problems to infer phylogenetic trees and phylogenetic networks, and discusses its applicabilit...
Esra Erdem
ICCS
2005
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Phylogenetic Networks, Trees, and Clusters
Phylogenetic networks model evolutionary histories in the presence of non-treelike events such as hybrid speciation and horizontal gene transfer. In spite of their widely acknowled...
Luay Nakhleh, Li-San Wang
CSB
2005
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Reconstructing Phylogenetic Networks Using Maximum Parsimony
Phylogenies—the evolutionary histories of groups of organisms—are one of the most widely used tools throughout the life sciences, as well as objects of research within systema...
Luay Nakhleh, Guohua Jin, Fengmei Zhao, John M. Me...
CPM
2009
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
The Structure of Level-k Phylogenetic Networks
Evolution is usually described as a phylogenetic tree, but due to some exchange of genetic material, it can be represented as a phylogenetic network which has an underlying tree st...
Philippe Gambette, Vincent Berry, Christophe Paul