Parsimony score of phylogenetic networks: Hardness results and a linear-time heuristic

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 495-505

  Jin, Guohua ^a   Nakhleh, Luay ^a   Snir, Sagi ^b   Tuller, Tamir ^c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hardness and approximation; Horizontal gene transfer; Maximum parsimony; Phylogenetic networks

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION RESULTS; BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; FAST HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HARDNESS OF APPROXIMATION; HARDNESS RESULT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HYBRID SPECIATION; IN-NETWORK; MAXIMUM PARSIMONY; PHYLOGENETIC NETWORKS; SYNTHETIC DATASETS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

BINARY TREES; GENE TRANSFER; HARDNESS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS;

SET THEORY;

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT;

ALGORITHMS; ARCHAEA; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS;

EID: 68649084421     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2008.119     Document Type: Article

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