Alignment-free phylogenetic reconstruction: Sample complexity via a branching process analysis

We present an efficient phylogenetic reconstruction algorithm allowing insertions and deletions which provably achieves a sequence-length requirement (or sample complexity) growing polynomially in the number of taxa. Our algorithm is distance-based, that is, it relies on pairwise sequence comparison...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roch, Sebastien, Daskalakis, Konstantinos
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99967
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5451-0490