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CORR
2006
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Why neighbor-joining works
We show that the neighbor-joining algorithm is a robust quartet method for constructing trees from distances. This leads to a new performance guarantee that contains Atteson's...
Radu Mihaescu, Dan Levy, Lior Pachter
JCB
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Neighbor Joining Algorithms for Inferring Phylogenies via LCA Distances
Reconstructing phylogenetic trees efficiently and accurately from distance estimates is an ongoing challenge in computational biology from both practical and theoretical consider...
Ilan Gronau, Shlomo Moran
JOS
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
The problem of the initial transient (again), or why MSER works
In a comprehensive study of methods for dealing with the problem of the initial transient, Hoad et al. (2008) determined that the MSER (White, 1997) was an efficient and effective...
K. P. White Jr., S. Robinson
GROUP
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Why it works (when it works): success factors in online creative collaboration
Online creative collaboration (peer production) has enabled the creation of Wikipedia and open source software (OSS), and is rapidly expanding to encompass new domains, such as vi...
Kurt Luther, Kelly E. Caine, Kevin Ziegler, Amy Br...