Fast NJ-like algorithms to deal with incomplete distance matrices

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Distance-based phylogeny inference methods first estimate evolutionary distances between every pair of taxa, then build a tree from the so-obtained distance matrix. These methods are fast and fairly accurate. However, they hardly dea...

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Main Authors: Criscuolo Alexis, Gascuel Olivier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-03-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/166