Neighbor joining with phylogenetic diversity estimates

Details Neighbor joining with phylogenetic diversity estimates Neighbor joining with phylogenetic diversity estimates

2005-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0508001v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Quantitative Methods

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The Neighbor-Joining algorithm is a recursive procedure for reconstructing trees that is based on a transformation of pairwise distances between leaves. We present a generalization of the neighbor-joining transformation, which uses estimates of phylogenetic diversity rather than pairwise distances in the tree. This leads to an improved neighbor-joining algorithm whose total running time is still polynomial in the number of taxa. On simulated data, the method outperforms other distance-based methods. We have implemented neighbor-joining for subtree weights in a program called MJOIN which is freely available under the Gnu Public License at http://bio.math.berkeley.edu/mjoin/ .

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