A fast algorithm for computing geodesic distances in tree space

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 2-13

  Owen, Megan ^a   Provan, J Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

biology and genetics; distance.; Geometrical problems and computations; graph theory; phylogenetics; trees

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY AND GENETICS; DISTANCE.; GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS; PHYLOGENETICS; TREES;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMOSOMES; GEODESY; GRAPH THEORY; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78449288503     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2010.3     Document Type: Article

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