SPR Distance Computation for Unrooted Trees

The subtree prune and regraft distance (dSPR) between phylogenetic trees is important both as a general means of comparing phylogenetic tree topologies as well as a measure of lateral gene transfer (LGT). Although there has been extensive study on the computation of dSPR and similar metrics between...

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Main Authors: Christian Blouin, Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Frank Dehne, Glenn Hickey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-01-01
Series:Evolutionary Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://la-press.com/article.php?article_id=548