Distance measures in terms of substitution processes
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Distance measures in terms of substitution processes
zbMATH Open document ID: 0954.92019
author: Ellen Baake
author: Arndt von Haeseler
published in: Theoretical Population Biology
publication date: 2001-01-16T00:00:00Z
review text: Reconstruction of phylognetic trees, in a good majority of applications, is acomplished via pairwise distance methods. The results of these types of algorithms heavily depend on the reliability of the computed distances. Recently, several new methods were developed to increase the reliability of these computations, like LogDet and paralinear distance calculations [see \textit{M. Steel}, Appl. Math. Lett. 7, No. 2, 19-23 (1994; Zbl 0794.60071), and \textit{J.A. Lake}, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91, 1455-1459 (1994), resp.]. These approaches proved usefull in applications, but the quantities lacked direct biological interpretations. This paper sets up a unified (continuous) model to introduce these measures; this model also provides a mechanical interpretation of those quantities.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 92D15
zbMATH DE Number: 1292514
zbMATH Keywords: phylogenetic tree reconstruction
zbMATH Keywords: distance methods
zbMATH Keywords: tree-additive distances
Wikidata QID: Q33636056
reviewed by: Péter L. Erdős
describes a project that uses: fastDNAml
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: tpbi.1998.1395
OpenAlex ID: W2075316356
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DOI: 10.1006/TPBI.1998.1395
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1292514