Fast Phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 by Compression

The compression method to assess similarity, in the sense of having a small normalized compression distance (NCD), was developed based on algorithmic information theory to quantify the similarity in files ranging from words and languages to genomes and music pieces. It has been validated on objects...

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Main Authors: Rudi L. Cilibrasi, Paul M. B. Vitányi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/439

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