A Quartet-Based Method for Phylogenetic Inference
220. B. B. Zhou, M. Tarawneh, C. Wang, A. Zomaya and R. P. Brent,
A novel quartet-based method for phylogenetic inference,
Proc. Fifth IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
(BIBE05),
IEEE CS Press, New York, 2005, 32-39.
Preprint:
pdf (440K).
Abstract
In this paper we introduce a new quartet-based method. This method makes use
of the Bayes (or quartet) weights of quartets as in quartet
puzzling. However, all the weights from the related quartets are
accumulated to form a global quartet weight matrix. This matrix provides
integrated information and can lead us to recursively merge small sub-trees
to larger ones until a final single tree is obtained. Experimental results
show that the probability for the correct tree to be among a very small
number of trees constructed using our method is very high. These results
open a new research direction to further investigate more efficient
algorithms for phylogenetic inference.
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