Comparison of galled trees
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2010•ieeexplore.ieee.org
Galled trees, directed acyclic graphs that model evolutionary histories with isolated
hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and
the existence of polynomial-time algorithms for their reconstruction. In this paper, we
establish to which extent several distance measures for the comparison of evolutionary
networks are metrics for galled trees, and hence, when they can be safely used to evaluate
galled tree reconstruction methods.
hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and
the existence of polynomial-time algorithms for their reconstruction. In this paper, we
establish to which extent several distance measures for the comparison of evolutionary
networks are metrics for galled trees, and hence, when they can be safely used to evaluate
galled tree reconstruction methods.
Galled trees, directed acyclic graphs that model evolutionary histories with isolated hybridization events, have become very popular due to both their biological significance and the existence of polynomial-time algorithms for their reconstruction. In this paper, we establish to which extent several distance measures for the comparison of evolutionary networks are metrics for galled trees, and hence, when they can be safely used to evaluate galled tree reconstruction methods.
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