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WOB
2004
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13 years 5 months ago
Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees using the Ant Colony Optimization Paradigm
We developed a new approach for the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees using ant colony optimization metaheuristics.Atree is constructed using a fully connected graph and the pro...
Heitor S. Lopes, Mauricio Perretto
APVIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Colour-Filling Approach For Visualising Trait Evolution With Phylogenies
The development of powerful visualisation tools is a major challenge in bioinformatics. Phylogenetics, a field with a growing impact on a variety of life science areas, is experie...
Savrina F. Carrizo
SC
1995
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Parallelizing the Phylogeny Problem
The problem of determining the evolutionary history of species in the form of phylogenetic trees is known as the phylogeny problem. We present a parallelization of the character c...
Jeff A. Jones, Katherine A. Yelick
CSB
2004
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
MinPD: Distance-Based Phylogenetic Analysis and Recombination Detection of Serially-Sampled HIV Quasispecies
A new computational method to study within-host viral evolution is explored to better understand the evolution and pathogenesis of viruses. Traditional phylogenetic tree methods a...
Patricia Buendia, Giri Narasimhan
CSB
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Search for Evolution-Related-Oligonucleotides and Conservative Words in rRNA Sequences
We describe a method for finding ungapped conserved words in rRNA sequences that is effective, utilizes evolutionary information and does not depend on multiple sequence alignment...
Liaofu Luo, Li-Ching Hsieh, Fengmin Ji, Mengwen Ji...
CPM
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Small Phylogeny Problem: Character Evolution Trees
Abstract. Phylogenetics is a science of determining connections between groups of organisms in terms of ancestor/descendent relationships, usually expressed by phylogenetic trees, ...
Arvind Gupta, Ján Manuch, Ladislav Stacho, ...
MFCS
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Reconstructing an Ultrametric Galled Phylogenetic Network from a Distance Matrix
Abstract. Given a distance matrix M that specifies the pairwise evolutionary distances between n species, the phylogenetic tree reconstruction problem asks for an edge-weighted ph...
Ho-Leung Chan, Jesper Jansson, Tak Wah Lam, Siu-Mi...
CSB
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Bacterial Whole Genome Phylogeny Using Proteome Comparison and Optimal Reversal Distance
Traditional phylogenetic tree reconstruction is based on point mutations of a single gene. This approach is hardly suitable for genomes whose genes are almost identical and hardly...
Noppadon Khiripet
BIBE
2006
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Evidence of Multiple Maximum Likelihood Points for a Phylogenetic Tree
An interesting and important, but largely ignored question associated with the ML method is whether there exists only a single maximum likelihood point for a given phylogenetic tr...
Bing Bing Zhou, Monther Tarawneh, Pinghao Wang, Da...
BMEI
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A New Approach for Tree Alignment Based on Local Re-Optimization
Multiple sequence alignment is the most fundamental task in bioinformatics and computational biology. In this paper, we present a new algorithm to conduct multiple sequences align...
Feng Yue, Jijun Tang