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JCB
1998
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Constructing and Counting Phylogenetic Invariants
Abstract. The method of invariants is an approach to the problem of reconstructing the phylogenetic tree of a collection of m taxa using nucleotide sequence data. Models for the re...
Steven N. Evans, Xiaowen Zhou
JSC
2006
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Phylogenetic invariants for stationary base composition
Changing base composition during the evolution of biological sequences can mislead some of the phylogenetic inference techniques in current use. However, detecting whether such a ...
Elizabeth S. Allman, John A. Rhodes
LICS
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Highly Acyclic Groups, Hypergraph Covers and the Guarded Fragment
We construct finite groups whose Cayley graphs have large girth even w.r.t. a discounted distance measure that contracts arbitrarily long sequences of edges from the same colour ...
Martin Otto
BMCBI
2006
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A statistical score for assessing the quality of multiple sequence alignments
Background: Multiple sequence alignment is the foundation of many important applications in bioinformatics that aim at detecting functionally important regions, predicting protein...
Virpi Ahola, Tero Aittokallio, Mauno Vihinen, Esa ...