On the edge l radius of Saitou and Nei's method for phylogenetic reconstruction

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the performance of Saitou and Nei's neighbor-joining method for phylogenetic reconstruction. We show that the edge l radius of the method is frac(1, 4). This improves an result by Atteson [The performance of neighbor-joining methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, Algorithmica 25 (1999) 251-278] and Xu et al. [A lower bound on the edge l radius of Saitou and Nei's method for phylogenetic reconstruction, Inform. Process. Lett. 94(5) (2005) 225-230]. Previously, only an upper bound frac(1, 4) and a lower bound frac(1, 6) were known.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)448-455
Number of pages8
JournalTheoretical Computer Science
Volume369
Issue number1-3
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 2006

Keywords

  • Evolutionary trees
  • Neighbor-joining
  • Phylogenetic reconstruction

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