Robustness of topological supertree methods for reconciling dense incompatible data

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-75

  Willson, Stephen J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graph algorithms; Phylogenetic tree; Supertree; Trees

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GRAPH ALGORITHMS; INPUT SETS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; SUPERTREE; TREES;

GRAPH THEORY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 59649117844     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2008.51     Document Type: Article

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