Optimizing taxon addition order and branch lengths in the construction of phylogenetic trees using maximum likelihood

Taxon addition order and branch lengths are optimized by genetic algorithms (GAS) within the fastDNAml algorithm for constructing phylogenetic trees of high likelihood. Results suggest that optimizing the order in which taxa are added improves the likelihood of the resulting trees.

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Published inJournal of bioinformatics and computational biology Vol. 18; no. 2; p. 2050003
Main Authors Yoon, Yourim, Kim, Yong-Hyuk
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Singapore 01.04.2020
Subjects
genetic algorithm
branch length
Phylogenetic tree
maximum likelihood
taxon addition order
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Summary:Taxon addition order and branch lengths are optimized by genetic algorithms (GAS) within the fastDNAml algorithm for constructing phylogenetic trees of high likelihood. Results suggest that optimizing the order in which taxa are added improves the likelihood of the resulting trees.
ISSN:1757-6334
DOI:10.1142/S0219720020500031