On the complexity of uSPR distance

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 572-576

  Bonet, Maria Luisa ^a   St John, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

analysis of algorithms; fixed parameter tractability; Phylogeny; phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS; FIXED PARAMETERS; FIXED-PARAMETER TRACTABILITY; LOWER BOUNDS; SUBTREES;

BIOLOGY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 77955466285     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2008.132     Document Type: Article

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