A combinatorial description of the closest tree algorithm for finding evolutionary trees (Q1182982)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 32567
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A combinatorial description of the closest tree algorithm for finding evolutionary trees
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 32567

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    A combinatorial description of the closest tree algorithm for finding evolutionary trees (English)
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    28 June 1992
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    Consider the closest tree algorithm for estimating the evolutionary history of \(n\) species. The previous branch and bound approach requires \(O(n^ n 2^ n)\) steps. The more efficient algorithm described in this paper requires \(O(n2^ n)\) steps for some classes of sequences.
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    evolutionary trees
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    maximum parsimony
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    phylogenetic tree reconstruction
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