An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees.

Kupczok A, Von Haeseler A, Klaere S. 2008. An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees. Journal of Computational Biology. 15(6), 577–591.

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Kupczok, AnneISTA; von Haeseler,Arndt; Klaere,Steffen
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The geometrical representation of the space of phylogenetic trees implies a metric on the space of weighted trees. This metric, the geodesic distance, is the length of the shortest path through that space. We present an exact algorithm to compute this metric. For biologically reasonable trees, the implementation allows fast computations of the geodesic distance, although the running time of the algorithm is worst-case exponential. The algorithm was applied to pairs of 118 gene trees of the metazoa. The results show that a special path in tree space, the cone path, which can be computed in linear time, is a good approximation of the geodesic distance. The program GeoMeTree is a python implementation of the geodesic distance, and it is approximations and is available from www.cibiv.at/software/geometree.
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2008-01-01
Journal Title
Journal of Computational Biology
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Mary Ann Liebert
Acknowledgement
10.1089/cmb.2008.0068
Volume
15
Issue
6
Page
577 - 591
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Kupczok A, Von Haeseler A, Klaere S. An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees. Journal of Computational Biology. 2008;15(6):577-591. doi:4200
Kupczok, A., Von Haeseler, A., & Klaere, S. (2008). An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees. Journal of Computational Biology. Mary Ann Liebert. https://doi.org/4200
Kupczok, Anne, Arndt Von Haeseler, and Steffen Klaere. “An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees.” Journal of Computational Biology. Mary Ann Liebert, 2008. https://doi.org/4200.
A. Kupczok, A. Von Haeseler, and S. Klaere, “An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees.,” Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 15, no. 6. Mary Ann Liebert, pp. 577–591, 2008.
Kupczok A, Von Haeseler A, Klaere S. 2008. An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees. Journal of Computational Biology. 15(6), 577–591.
Kupczok, Anne, et al. “An Exact Algorithm for the Geodesic Distance between Phylogenetic Trees.” Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 15, no. 6, Mary Ann Liebert, 2008, pp. 577–91, doi:4200.

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