TY - GEN
T1 - The performance of phylogenetic methods on trees of bounded diameter
AU - Nakhleh, Luay
AU - Roshan, Usman
AU - St. John, Katherine
AU - Sun, Jerry
AU - Warnow, Tandy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - We study the convergence rates of neighbor-joining and several new phylogenetic reconstruction methods on families of trees of bounded diameter. Our study presents theoretically obtained convergence rates, as well as an empirical study based upon simulation of evolution on random birth-death trees. We find that the new phylogenetic methods offer an advantage over the neighborjoining method, except at low rates of evolution where they have comparable performance. The improvement in performance of the new methods over neighborjoining increases with the number of taxa and the rate of evolution.
AB - We study the convergence rates of neighbor-joining and several new phylogenetic reconstruction methods on families of trees of bounded diameter. Our study presents theoretically obtained convergence rates, as well as an empirical study based upon simulation of evolution on random birth-death trees. We find that the new phylogenetic methods offer an advantage over the neighborjoining method, except at low rates of evolution where they have comparable performance. The improvement in performance of the new methods over neighborjoining increases with the number of taxa and the rate of evolution.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84959044156
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84959044156#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-44696-6_17
DO - 10.1007/3-540-44696-6_17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84959044156
SN - 3540425160
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 214
EP - 226
BT - Algorithms in Bioinformatics - First International Workshop, WABI 2001 Århus Denmark, August 28-31, 2001 Proceedings
A2 - Moret, Bernard M. E.
A2 - Gascuel, Olivier
PB - Springer
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2001
Y2 - 28 August 2001 through 31 August 2001
ER -