Optimality of the Neighbor Joining Algorithm and Faces of the Balanced Minimum Evolution Polytope

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2627-2648

  Haws, David C ^a   Hodge, Terrell L ^b   Yoshida, Ruriko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced minimum evolution; Combinatorics; Neighbor joining; Phylogentic analysis; Polyhedral geometry

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PHYLOGENY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 81255142069     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-011-9640-x     Document Type: Article

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