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q-bio.QM2007★ 1 cited
On the optimality of the neighbor-joining algorithm
Kord Eickmeyer, Peter Huggins, Lior Pachter +1
The popular neighbor-joining (NJ) algorithm used in phylogenetics is a greedy algorithm for finding the balanced minimum evolution (BME) tree associated to a dissimilarity map. Fro…
q-bio.QM2005★ 4 cited
Neighbor joining with phylogenetic diversity estimates
Dan Levy, Ruriko Yoshida, Lior Pachter
The Neighbor-Joining algorithm is a recursive procedure for reconstructing trees that is based on a transformation of pairwise distances between leaves. We present a generalization…
q-bio.QM2003
Tropical Geometry of Statistical Models
Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels
This paper presents a unified mathematical framework for inference in graphical models, building on the observation that graphical models are algebraic varieties. From this geometr…