A practical O(n log2n) time algorithm for computing the triplet distance on binary trees
The triplet distance is a distance measure that compares two rooted trees on the same set of leaves by enumerating all sub-sets of three leaves and counting how often the induced topologies of the tree are equal or different. We present an algorithm that computes the triplet distance between two roo...
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| Vydáno v: | BMC bioinformatics Ročník 14; číslo Suppl 2; s. S18 |
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| Hlavní autoři: | , , , , |
| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London
BioMed Central
21.01.2013
Springer Nature B.V |
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| ISSN: | 1471-2105, 1471-2105 |
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| Shrnutí: | The triplet distance is a distance measure that compares two rooted trees on the same set of leaves by enumerating all sub-sets of three leaves and counting how often the induced topologies of the tree are equal or different. We present an algorithm that computes the triplet distance between two rooted binary trees in time
O
(
n
log
2
n
). The algorithm is related to an algorithm for computing the quartet distance between two unrooted binary trees in time
O
(
n
log
n
). While the quartet distance algorithm has a very severe overhead in the asymptotic time complexity that makes it impractical compared to
O
(
n
2
) time algorithms, we show through experiments that the triplet distance algorithm can be implemented to give a competitive wall-time running time. |
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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1471-2105 1471-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2105-14-S2-S18 |