SPR distance computation for unrooted trees

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2008, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 17-27

  Hickey, Glenn ^a   Dehne, Frank ^a   Rau Chaplin, Andrew ^b   Blouin, Christian ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lateral gene transfer; Phylogenetic tree metrics; SPR distance; Unrooted tress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENOME ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE CONSTRUCTION METHOD; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT;

LANGAT VIRUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 41049096780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11769343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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