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Phylogenetics: New data, new challenges

Edited by Vincent Moulton, Mike Steel and Tandy Warnow

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  1. Recently one step mutation matrices were introduced to model the impact of substitutions on arbitrary branches of a phylogenetic tree on an alignment site. This concept works nicely for the four-state nucleoti...

    Authors: Mareike Fischer, Steffen Klaere, Minh Anh Thi Nguyen and Arndt von Haeseler
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2012 7:36
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  2. The selection of an evolutionary model to best fit given molecular data is usually a heuristic choice. In his seminal book, J. Felsenstein suggested that certain linear equations satisfied by the expected prob...

    Authors: Marta Casanellas, Jesús Fernández-Sánchez and Anna M Kedzierska
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2012 7:33
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  3. There are several common ways to encode a tree as a matrix, such as the adjacency matrix, the Laplacian matrix (that is, the infinitesimal generator of the natural random walk), and the matrix of pairwise dist...

    Authors: Frederick A Matsen and Steven N Evans
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2012 7:14
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  5. Phylogenetic networks are generalizations of phylogenetic trees, that are used to model evolutionary events in various contexts. Several different methods and criteria have been introduced for reconstructing p...

    Authors: Lavanya Kannan and Ward C Wheeler
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2012 7:9
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  8. We present optimal linear time algorithms for computing the Shapley values and 'heightened evolutionary distinctiveness' (HED) scores for the set of taxa in a phylogenetic tree. We demonstrate the efficiency o...

    Authors: Iain Martyn, Tyler S Kuhn, Arne O Mooers, Vincent Moulton and Andreas Spillner
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2012 7:6
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  9. Supertree methods combine trees on subsets of the full taxon set together to produce a tree on the entire set of taxa. Of the many supertree methods, the most popular is MRP (Matrix Representation with Parsimo...

    Authors: Nam Nguyen, Siavash Mirarab and Tandy Warnow
    Citation: Algorithms for Molecular Biology 2012 7:3
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