Ancestral maximum likelihood of evolutionary trees is hard

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 257-271

  Addario Berry, Louigi ^a   Chor, Benny ^b   Hallett, Mike ^c   Lagergren, Jens ^d   Panconesi, Alessandro ^e   Wareham, Todd ^f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Maximum likelihood; Phylogeny inference

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLESIOMORPHY; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 4043184290     PISSN: 02197200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219720004000557     Document Type: Article

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