BMC Evolutionary Biology

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An ant colony optimization algorithm for phylogenetic estimation under the minimum evolution principle

Daniele Catanzaro1, Rafflaele Pesenti2 and Michel C Milinkovitch1*

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1 Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, Institute for Molecular Biology and Medicine (IBMM), Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), CP300, Rue Jeener et Brachet 12, B-6041, Gosselies, Belgium

2 Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata, Universitá Ca' Foscari, Dorsoduro 3246 - 30123, Venice, Italy

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:228 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-228

Published: 15 November 2007

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An ant colony optimization algorithm for phylogenetic estimation under the minimum evolution principle – supplementary material. The supplementary file includes discussions on the structure of the EPT matrices as well as how we generate and enumerate topologies in ACO-ME.

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