A scalable method for identifying frequent subtrees in sets of large phylogenetic trees

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We consider the problem of finding the maximum frequent agreement subtrees (MFASTs) in a collection of phylogenetic trees. Existing methods for this problem often do not scale beyond datasets with around 100 taxa. Our goal is to addr...

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Main Authors: Ramu Avinash, Kahveci Tamer, Burleigh J Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-10-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/256