Sequence alignment, mutual information, and dissimilarity measures for constructing phylogenies.

BACKGROUND: Existing sequence alignment algorithms use heuristic scoring schemes based on biological expertise, which cannot be used as objective distance metrics. As a result one relies on crude measures, like the p- or log-det distances, or makes explicit, and often too simplistic, a priori assump...

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Main Authors: Orion Penner, Peter Grassberger, Maya Paczuski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3014950?pdf=render