Optimized ancestral state reconstruction using Sankoff parsimony
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Parsimony methods are widely used in molecular evolution to estimate the most plausible phylogeny for a set of characters. Sankoff parsimony determines the minimum number of changes required in a given phylogeny when a cost is associ...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-02-01
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Series: | BMC Bioinformatics |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/51 |