A simple fixed parameter tractable algorithm for computing the hybridization number of two (not necessarily binary) trees

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-25

  Piovesan, Teresa ^a,b   Kelk, Steven M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fixed parameter tractability; nonbinary; Phylogenetic network

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL STRUCTURES; FIXED-PARAMETER TRACTABILITY; FIXED-PARAMETER TRACTABLE ALGORITHMS; MAXIMAL ELEMENTS; NON-BINARY; PARTIAL ORDER; PHYLOGENETIC NETWORKS; PHYLOGENETIC TREES;

ALGORITHMS; BINARY TREES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84878308660     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2012.134     Document Type: Article

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