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Metrics for Phylogenetic Networks I: Generalizations of the Robinson-Foulds Metric by G. Cardona; M. Llabres; F. Rossello; G. Valiente is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.

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The assessment of phylogenetic network reconstruction methods requires the ability to compare phylogenetic networks. This is the first in a series of papers devoted to the analysis and comparison of metrics for tree-child time-consistent phylogenetic networks on the same set of taxa. In this paper, we study three metrics that have already been introduced in the literature: the Robinson-Foulds distance, the tripartition distance, and the -distance. They generalize to networks the classical Robinson-Foulds or partition distance for phylogenetic trees. We analyze the behavior of these metrics by studying their least and largest values and when they achieve them. As a by-product of this study, we obtain tight bounds on the size of a tree-child time-consistent phylogenetic network.

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Author

G. Cardona; M. Llabres; F. Rossello; G. Valiente

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)