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BIBE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
—The performance of maximum likelihood searches can be boosted by using the most parsimonious tree as a starting point for the search. The time spent in performing the parsimony ...
IJCBDD
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
: Phylogenetic search is a key tool used in a variety of biological research endeavors. However, this search problem is known to be computationally difficult, due to the astronomic...
TCBB
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
— We explore the maximum parsimony (MP) and ancestral maximum likelihood (AML) criteria in phylogenetic tree reconstruction. Both problems are NP hard, so we seek approximate sol...
BMCBI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Background: Inference of evolutionary trees using the maximum likelihood principle is NP-hard. Therefore, all practical methods rely on heuristics. The topological transformations...
RECOMB
2008
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
Understanding the variation of recombination rates across a given genome is crucial for disease gene mapping and for detecting signatures of selection, to name just a couple of app...