Fast algorithms for computing phylogenetic divergence time

Abstract Background The inference of species divergence time is a key step in most phylogenetic studies. Methods have been available for the last ten years to perform the inference, but the performance of the methods does not yet scale well to studies with hundreds of taxa and thousands of DNA base...

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Main Authors: Ralph W. Crosby, Tiffani L. Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-017-1916-1