Title |
Cophenetic metrics for phylogenetic trees, after Sokal and Rohlf
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Published in |
BMC Bioinformatics, January 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2105-14-3 |
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Authors |
Gabriel Cardona, Arnau Mir, Francesc Rosselló, Lucía Rotger, David Sánchez |
Abstract |
Phylogenetic tree comparison metrics are an important tool in the study of evolution, and hence the definition of such metrics is an interesting problem in phylogenetics. In a paper in Taxon fifty years ago, Sokal and Rohlf proposed to measure quantitatively the difference between a pair of phylogenetic trees by first encoding them by means of their half-matrices of cophenetic values, and then comparing these matrices. This idea has been used several times since then to define dissimilarity measures between phylogenetic trees but, to our knowledge, no proper metric on weighted phylogenetic trees with nested taxa based on this idea has been formally defined and studied yet. Actually, the cophenetic values of pairs of different taxa alone are not enough to single out phylogenetic trees with weighted arcs or nested taxa. |
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