The computational complexity of inferring rooted phylogenies by parsimony

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(86)90161-6zbMath0607.92002OpenAlexW2084289491MaRDI QIDQ1086183

David S. Johnson, David Sankoff, William H. E. Day

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(86)90161-6

zbMATH Keywords

computational complexityNP-completeevolutionary treesbinarymultistatequalitativeCamin-Sokal and Dollo parsimony criteriacladisticevolutionary changerooted phylogenies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Problems related to evolution (92D15) Genetics and epigenetics (92D10) General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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