Designing an A* algorithm for calculating edit distance between rooted-unordered trees

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1165-1176

  Horesh, Yair ^a   Mehr, Ramit ^a   Unger, Ron ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

A*; Lineage trees; Rooted unordered trees; Tree edit distance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION;

EID: 33749246866     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2006.13.1165     Document Type: Article

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