The Bourque distances for mutation trees of cancers

Abstract Background Mutation trees are rooted trees in which nodes are of arbitrary degree and labeled with a mutation set. These trees, also referred to as clonal trees, are used in computational oncology to represent the mutational history of tumours. Classical tree metrics such as the popular Rob...

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Main Authors: Katharina Jahn, Niko Beerenwinkel, Louxin Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Algorithms for Molecular Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13015-021-00188-3