
Article Title
Keywords
phylogenetic tree, tree bisection and reconnection, subtree prune and regraft, fixed-parameter algorithm, approximation algorithm
Abstract
Phylogenetic trees have been widely used in the study of evolutionary biology for representing the tree-like evolution of a collection of species. However, different data sets and different methods often lead to the construction of different phylogenetic trees for the same set of species. Therefore, comparing these trees to determine similarities or, equivalently, dissimilarities, becomes the fundamental issue. Typically, Tree Bisection and Reconnection (TBR) and Subtree Prune and Regraft (SPR) distances have been proposed to facilitate the comparison between different phylogenetic trees. In this paper, we give a survey on the aspects of computational complexity, fixed-parameter algorithms, and approximation algorithms for computing the TBR and SPR distances of phylogenetic trees.
Publisher
Tsinghua University Press
Recommended Citation
Feng Shi, Qilong Feng, Jianer Chen et al. Distances Between Phylogenetic Trees: A Survey. Tsinghua Science and Technology 2013, 18(5): 490-499.