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Refining Phylogenetic Trees Given Additional Data: An Algorithm Based on Parsimony
January-March 2009 (vol. 6 no. 1)
pp. 118-125
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Taoyang Wu, Vincent Moulton, Mike Steel, "Refining Phylogenetic Trees Given Additional Data: An Algorithm Based on Parsimony," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 118-125, January-March, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TCBB.2008.100,
author = {Taoyang Wu and Vincent Moulton and Mike Steel},
title = {Refining Phylogenetic Trees Given Additional Data: An Algorithm Based on Parsimony},
journal ={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics},
volume = {6},
number = {1},
issn = {1545-5963},
year = {2009},
pages = {118-125},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2008.100},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Taoyang Wu, Queen Mary, University of London, London
Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Mike Steel, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
Given a set X of taxa, a phylogenetic X-tree T that is only partially resolved, and a collection of characters on X, we consider the problem of finding a resolution (refinement) of T that minimizes the parsimony score of the given characters. Previous work has shown that this problem has a polynomial time solution provided certain strong constraints are imposed on the input. In this paper we provide a new algorithm for this problem, and show that it is fixed parameter tractable under more general conditions.

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Combinatorial algorithms, Life and Medical Sciences
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Taoyang Wu, Vincent Moulton, Mike Steel, "Refining Phylogenetic Trees Given Additional Data: An Algorithm Based on Parsimony," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 118-125, Jan.-March 2009, doi:10.1109/TCBB.2008.100
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