A sub-cubic time algorithm for computing the quartet distance between two general trees

Algorithms for Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Nielsen, Jesper ^a   Kristensen, Anders K ^a   Mailund, Thomas ^a   Pedersen, Christian N S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 79957832529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7188-6-15     Document Type: Article

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