• Title of article

    RPNCH: A Method for Constructing Rooted Phylogenetic Networks from Rooted Triplets based on Height Function

  • Author/Authors

    Reyhani, Mohammad Hossein Department of Mathematics - Islamic Azad University - Yazd branch, Yazd , Poormohammadi, Hadi Faculty of Engineering - Haeri University, Meybod

  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    14
  • To page
    20
  • Abstract
    Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees which permit the representation the non-tree-like events. It is NP-hard to construct an optimal rooted phylogenetic network from a given set of rooted triplets. This paper presents a novel algorithm called RPNCH. For a given set of rooted triplets, RPNCH tries to construct a rooted phylogenetic network with the minimum number of reticulation nodes that contains all the given rooted triplets. The performance of RPNCH algorithm on simulated data is reported here.
  • Keywords
    Rooted phylogenetic network , Rooted Triplet , Density , Height function , Reticulation node
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Serial Year
    2017
  • Record number

    2431512