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Gabriel Cardona and
Louxin Zhang. Counting and Enumerating Tree-Child Networks and Their Subclasses. In JCSS, Vol. 114:84-104, 2020. Keywords: counting, enumeration, explicit network, galled network, galled tree, normal network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, tree-child network.
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Louxin Zhang. Recent Progresses in the Combinatorial and Algorithmic Study of Rooted Phylogenetic Networks. In WALCOM20, Vol. 12049:22-27 of LNCS, Springer, 2020. Keywords: cluster containment, galled network, galled tree, nearly-stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reticulation-visible network, survey, time consistent network, tree containment, tree-based network, tree-child network.
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Elizabeth Gross,
Leo van Iersel,
Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones,
Colby Long and
Yukihiro Murakami. Distinguishing level-1 phylogenetic networks on the basis of data generated by Markov processes. 2020. Keywords: characterization, distinguishability, explicit network, galled tree, phylogenetic network, population genetics, semidirected network, statistical model, uniqueness. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08782.
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Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones and
Yukihiro Murakami. Combining Networks Using Cherry Picking Sequences. In AlCoB20, Vol. 12099:77-92 of LNCS, Springer, 2020. Keywords: cherry-picking, explicit network, FPT, from network, hybridization, orchard network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, tree-child network.
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Remie Janssen and
Yukihiro Murakami. Linear Time Algorithm for Tree-Child Network Containment. In AlCoB20, Vol. 12099:93-107 of LNCS, Springer, 2020. Keywords: explicit network, from network, isomorphism, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, tree-child network, tree-child sequence. Note: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42266-0_8.
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Leo van Iersel,
Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones,
Yukihiro Murakami and
Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems Involving Duplication and Reticulation. In TCBB, Vol. 17(1):14-26, 2020. Keywords: hybridization, minimum number, parental hybridization, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, weakly displaying. Note: http://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/71270795/08798653.pdf.
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Hadi Poormohammadi,
Mohsen Sardari Zarchi and
Hossein Ghaneai. NCHB: A method for constructing rooted phylogenetic networks from rooted triplets based on height function and binarization. In JTB, Vol. 489(110144), 2020. Keywords: explicit network, from triplets, heuristic, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Simplistic, Program TripNet, reconstruction. Note: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.110144.
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Joan Carles Pons,
Charles Semple and
Mike Steel. Tree-based networks: characterisations, metrics, and support trees. In JOMB, Vol. 78(4):899-918, 2019. Keywords: characterization, explicit network, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, time consistent network, tree-based network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07836.
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Janosch Döcker,
Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk and
Simone Linz. Deciding the existence of a cherry-picking sequence is hard on two trees. In DAM, Vol. 260:131-143, 2019. Keywords: cherry-picking, explicit network, hybridization, minimum number, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, temporal-hybridization number, time consistent network, tree-child network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02965.
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Andreas Gunawan,
Hongwei Yan and
Louxin Zhang. Compression of Phylogenetic Networks and Algorithm for the Tree Containment Problem. In JCB, Vol. 25(3), 2019. Keywords: explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, quasi-reticulation-visible network, reticulation-visible network, tree containment, tree-child network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.07625.
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R. A. Leo Elworth,
Huw A. Ogilvie,
Jiafan Zhu and
Luay Nakhleh. Advances in Computational Methods for Phylogenetic Networks in the Presence of Hybridization. In
Tandy Warnow editor, Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics. Seminal Contributions of Bernard Moret, Vol. 29 of Computational Biology, Springer, 2019. Keywords: explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Dendroscope, Program PhyloNet, Program PhyloNetworks SNaQ, Program PIRN, Program SplitsTree, reconstruction, survey. Note: https://bioinfocs.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs266/f/ElworthZhuOgilvieNakhleh.pdf
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Louxin Zhang. Clusters, Trees, and Phylogenetic Network Classes. In
Tandy Warnow editor, Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics. Seminal Contributions of Bernard Moret, Vol. 29:277-315 of Computational Biology, Springer, 2019. Keywords: cluster containment, explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, tree containment.
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Juan Wang and
Maozu Guo. IGNet: Constructing Rooted Phylogenetic Networks Based on Incompatible Graphs. In ICNC-FSKD19, Vol. 1075:894-900 of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, 2019. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program BIMLR, Program IGNet, Program LNetwork, reconstruction, software.
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Yukihiro Murakami,
Leo van Iersel,
Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones and
Vincent Moulton. Reconstructing Tree-Child Networks from Reticulate-Edge-Deleted Subnetworks. In BMB, Vol. 81:3823-3863, 2019. Keywords: from subnetworks, level k phylogenetic network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, tree-child network, uniqueness, valid network. Note: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-019-00641-w.
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Juan Wang and
Maozu Guo. A review of metrics measuring dissimilarity for rooted phylogenetic networks. In Briefings in Bioinformatics, Vol. 20(6):1972-1980, 2019. Keywords: distance between networks, explicit network, from network, mu distance, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, survey, tree sibling network, tree-child network.
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Jesper Jansson,
Konstantinos Mampentzidis,
Ramesh Rajaby and
Wing-Kin Sung. Computing the Rooted Triplet Distance Between Phylogenetic Networks. In IWOCA19, Vol. 11638:290-303 of LNCS, Springer, 2019. Keywords: distance between networks, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, triplet distance.
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Katharina Huber,
Leo van Iersel,
Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones,
Vincent Moulton,
Yukihiro Murakami and
Charles Semple. Rooting for phylogenetic networks. 2019. Keywords: explicit network, from network, level k phylogenetic network, orchard network, orientation, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, stack-free network, tree-based network, tree-child network, valid network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07430.
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Gabriel Cardona,
Joan Carles Pons and
Celine Scornavacca. Generation of Binary Tree-Child phylogenetic networks. In PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 15(10):e1007440.1-29, 2019. Keywords: enumeration, explicit network, generation, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNetwork, Program TCGenerators, software, tree-child network. Note: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007440.
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Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk,
Giorgios Stamoulis,
Leen Stougie and
Olivier Boes. On unrooted and root-uncertain variants of several well-known phylogenetic network problems. In ALG, Vol. 80(11):2993-3022, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, FPT, from network, from unrooted trees, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, tree containment. Note: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01599716.
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Mathias Weller. Linear-Time Tree Containment in Phylogenetic Networks. In RECOMB-CG18, Vol. 11183:309-323 of LNCS, Springer, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, nearly-stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, reticulation-visible network, tree containment. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06364.
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Andrew R. Francis,
Katharina Huber,
Vincent Moulton and
Taoyang Wu. Bounds for phylogenetic network space metrics. In JOMB, Vol. 76(5):1229-1248, 2018. Keywords: bound, distance between networks, from network, NNI distance, NNI moves, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, SPR distance, TBR distance. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05609.
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Hussein A. Hejase,
Natalie VandePol,
Gregory A. Bonito and
Kevin J. Liu. Fast and accurate statistical inference of phylogenetic networks using large-scale genomic sequence data. In RECOMB-CG18, Vol. 11183:242-259 of LNCS, Springer, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, heuristic, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program FastNet, reconstruction. Note: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/01/132795.
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Andrew R. Francis,
Katharina Huber and
Vincent Moulton. Tree-based unrooted phylogenetic networks. In BMB, Vol. 80(2):404-416, 2018. Keywords: characterization, explicit network, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, tree containment, tree-based network, unrooted tree-based network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02062.
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Magnus Bordewich,
Charles Semple and
Nihan Tokac. Constructing tree-child networks from distance matrices. In Algorithmica, Vol. 80(8):2240-2259, 2018. Keywords: compressed network, explicit network, from distances, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, tree-child network, uniqueness. Note: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~c.semple/papers/BSN17.pdf.
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Andreas Gunawan. Solving the Tree Containment Problem for Reticulation-visible Networks in Linear Time. In AlCoB18, Vol. 10849:24-36 of LNCS, Springer, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reticulation-visible network, tree containment. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04088.
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Philippe Gambette,
Andreas Gunawan,
Anthony Labarre,
Stéphane Vialette and
Louxin Zhang. Solving the Tree Containment Problem in Linear Time for Nearly Stable Phylogenetic Networks. In DAM, Vol. 246:62-79, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, nearly-stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, tree containment. Note: https://hal-upec-upem.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01575001/en/.
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Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones,
Péter L. Erdös,
Leo van Iersel and
Celine Scornavacca. Exploring the tiers of rooted phylogenetic network space using tail moves. In BMB, Vol. 80(8):2177-2208, 2018. Keywords: distance between networks, explicit network, from network, NNI moves, orientation, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, SPR distance. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07656.
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Sarah Bastkowski,
Daniel Mapleson,
Andreas Spillner,
Taoyang Wu,
Monika Balvociute and
Vincent Moulton. SPECTRE: a Suite of PhylogEnetiC Tools for Reticulate Evolution. In BIO, Vol. 34(6):1057-1058, 2018. Keywords: abstract network, NeighborNet, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program FlatNJ, Program QNet, Program SplitsTree, reconstruction, software, split network. Note: https://doi.org/10.1101/169177.
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Sebastien Roch and
Kun-Chieh Wang. Circular Networks from Distorted Metrics. In RECOMB18, Vol. 10812:167-176 of LNCS, Springer, 2018. Keywords: abstract network, circular split system, from distances, NeighborNet, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, split network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05722.
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Paul Bastide,
Claudia Solís-Lemus,
Ricardo Kriebel,
Kenneth William Sparks and
Cécile Ané. Phylogenetic Comparative Methods on Phylogenetic Networks with Reticulations. In SB, Vol. 67(5):800-820, 2018. Keywords: ancestral trait reconstruction, from network, likelihood, Program PhyloNetworks SNaQ, software, statistical model, statistical test. Note: https://doi.org/10.1101/194050.
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Katharina Huber,
Vincent Moulton,
Charles Semple and
Taoyang Wu. Quarnet inference rules for level-1 networks. In BMB, Vol. 80:2137-2153, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, from quarnets, from subnetworks, galled tree, level k phylogenetic network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06720.
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Janosch Döcker and
Simone Linz. On the existence of a cherry-picking sequence. In TCS, Vol. 714:36-50, 2018. Keywords: cherry-picking, explicit network, from rooted trees, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, temporal-hybridization number, time consistent network, tree-child network. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04127.
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Leo van Iersel,
Mark Jones and
Celine Scornavacca. Improved maximum parsimony models for phylogenetic networks. In SB, Vol. 67(3):518-542, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, FPT, from sequences, NP complete, parsimony, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, weakly displaying. Note: https://leovaniersel.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/improved_parsimony_networks.pdf.
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Magnus Bordewich,
Katharina Huber,
Vincent Moulton and
Charles Semple. Recovering normal networks from shortest inter-taxa distance information. In JOMB, Vol. 77(3):571-594, 2018. Keywords: explicit network, from distances, normal network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, uniqueness. Note: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~c.semple/papers/BHMS18.pdf.
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Chi Zhang,
Huw A. Ogilvie,
Alexei J. Drummond and
Tanja Stadler. Bayesian Inference of Species Networks from Multilocus Sequence Data. In MBE, Vol. 35(2):504-517, 2018. Keywords: bayesian, explicit network, from sequences, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, statistical model. Note: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx307.
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Guillaume Scholz. New algorithms and mathematical tools for phylogenetics beyond trees. PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, 2018. Keywords: circular split system, explicit network, explicit network, from splits, galled tree, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, split network, uniqueness. Note: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66952.
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Dingqiao Wen,
Yun Yu,
Jiafan Zhu and
Luay Nakhleh. Inferring Phylogenetic Networks Using PhyloNet. In SB, Vol. 67(4):735-740, 2018. Keywords: bayesian, likelihood, parsimony, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNet, reconstruction, software.
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Jiafan Zhu,
Dingqiao Wen,
Yun Yu,
Heidi M. Meudt and
Luay Nakhleh. Bayesian inference of phylogenetic networks from bi-allelic genetic markers. In PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 14(1):e1005932.1-32, 2018. Keywords: bayesian, explicit network, from multistate characters, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNet. Note: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005932.
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Andreas Gunawan. On the tree and cluster containment problems for phylogenetic networks. PhD thesis, National University of Singapore, 2018. Keywords: cluster containment, explicit network, galled network, genetically stable network, nearly-stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reticulation-visible network, tree containment. Note: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/144270.
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Leo van Iersel,
Remie Janssen,
Mark Jones,
Yukihiro Murakami and
Norbert Zeh. Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Phylogenetic Inference Problems. In AlCoB18, Vol. 10849:37-49 of LNCS, Springer, 2018. Keywords: hybridization, minimum number, parental hybridization, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, weakly displaying. Note: https://research.tudelft.nl/files/53686721/10.1007_978_3_319_91938_6_4.pdf.
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Katharina Huber,
Leo van Iersel,
Vincent Moulton,
Celine Scornavacca and
Taoyang Wu. Reconstructing phylogenetic level-1 networks from nondense binet and trinet sets. In ALG, Vol. 77(1):173-200, 2017. Keywords: explicit network, FPT, from binets, from subnetworks, from trinets, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6804.
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Philippe Gambette,
Katharina Huber and
Guillaume Scholz. Uprooted Phylogenetic Networks. In BMB, Vol. 79(9):2022-2048, 2017. Keywords: circular split system, explicit network, from splits, galled tree, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, split network, uniqueness. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08387.
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Julia Matsieva,
Steven Kelk,
Celine Scornavacca,
Chris Whidden and
Dan Gusfield. A Resolution of the Static Formulation Question for the Problem of Computing the History Bound. In TCBB, Vol. 14(2):404-417, 2017. Keywords: ARG, explicit network, from sequences, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny.
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Sha Zhu and
James H. Degnan. Displayed Trees Do Not Determine Distinguishability Under the Network Multispecies Coalescent. In SB, Vol. 66(2):283-298, 2017. Keywords: branch length, coalescent, explicit network, from network, likelihood, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Hybrid-coal, Program Hybrid-Lambda, Program PhyloNet, software, uniqueness. Note: presentation available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLYGTfEZG7g.
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Misagh Kordi and
Mukul S. Bansal. On the Complexity of Duplication-Transfer-Loss Reconciliation with Non-Binary Gene Trees. In TCBB, Vol. 14(3):587-599, 2017. Keywords: duplication, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://compbio.engr.uconn.edu/papers/Kordi_DTLreconciliationPreprint2015.pdf.
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Andreas Gunawan,
Bhaskar DasGupta and
Louxin Zhang. A decomposition theorem and two algorithms for reticulation-visible networks. In Information and Computation, Vol. 252:161-175, 2017. Keywords: cluster containment, explicit network, from clusters, from network, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reticulation-visible network, tree containment. Note: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~dasgupta/resume/publ/papers/Infor_Comput_IC4848_final.pdf.
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Bingxin Lu,
Louxin Zhang and
Hon Wai Leong. A program to compute the soft Robinson-Foulds distance between phylogenetic networks. In APBC17, Vol. 18(Suppl. 2):111 of BMC Genomics, 2017. Keywords: cluster containment, distance between networks, explicit network, exponential algorithm, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program icelu-PhyloNetwork. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3500-5.
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Magnus Bordewich,
Simone Linz and
Charles Semple. Lost in space? Generalising subtree prune and regraft to spaces of phylogenetic networks. In JTB, Vol. 423:1-12, 2017. Keywords: distance between networks, explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reticulation-visible network, SPR distance, tree-based network, tree-child network. Note: https://simonelinz.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/bls171.pdf.
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Celine Scornavacca,
Joan Carles Pons and
Gabriel Cardona. Fast algorithm for the reconciliation of gene trees and LGT networks. In JTB, Vol. 418:129-137, 2017. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, lateral gene transfer, LGT network, loss, parsimony, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction.
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Jesper Jansson,
Ramesh Rajaby and
Wing-Kin Sung. An Efficient Algorithm for the Rooted Triplet Distance Between Galled Trees. In AlCoB17, Vol. 10252:115-126 of LNCS, Springer, 2017. Keywords: distance between networks, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reconstruction, triplet distance. Note: .
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Leo van Iersel,
Vincent Moulton,
Eveline De Swart and
Taoyang Wu. Binets: fundamental building blocks for phylogenetic networks. In BMB, Vol. 79(5):1135-1154, 2017. Keywords: approximation, explicit network, from binets, from subnetworks, galled tree, level k phylogenetic network, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-017-0275-4.
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Philippe Gambette,
Leo van Iersel,
Mark Jones,
Manuel Lafond,
Fabio Pardi and
Celine Scornavacca. Rearrangement Moves on Rooted Phylogenetic Networks. In PLoS Computational Biology, Vol. 13(8):e1005611.1-21, 2017. Keywords: distance between networks, explicit network, from network, NNI distance, NNI moves, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, SPR distance. Note: https://hal-upec-upem.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01572624/en/.
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Han Lai,
Maureen Stolzer and
Dannie Durand. Fast Heuristics for Resolving Weakly Supported Branches Using Duplication, Transfers, and Losses. In RECOMB-CG17, Vol. 10562:298-320 of LNCS, Springer, 2017. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Notung, reconstruction.
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Claudia Solís-Lemus,
Paul Bastide and
Cécile Ané. PhyloNetworks: A Package for Phylogenetic Networks. In MBE, Vol. 34(12):3292-3298, 2017. Keywords: from sequences, from trees, likelihood, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNetworks SNaQ, reconstruction, software. Note: https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx235.
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Klaus Schliep,
Alastair J. Potts,
David A. Morrison and
Guido W. Grimm. Intertwining phylogenetic trees and networks. In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 8(10):1212-1220, 2017. Keywords: abstract network, from network, from unrooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, split network, visualization. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12760.
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Edwin Jacox,
Mathias Weller,
Eric Tannier and
Celine Scornavacca. Resolution and reconciliation of non-binary gene trees with transfers, duplications and losses. In BIO, Vol. 33(7):980-987, 2017. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, FPT, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw778.
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Paul Bastide. Shifted stochastic processes evolving on trees : application to models of adaptive evolution on phylogenies. PhD thesis, Université Paris Saclay, 2017. Keywords: ancestral trait reconstruction, bayesian, explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNetworks SNaQ, reconstruction, statistical model. Note: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01629648/en/, slides..
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Kuang-Yu Chang,
Yun Cui,
Siu-Ming Yiu and
Wing-Kai Hon. Reconstructing One-Articulated Networks with Distance Matrices. In ISBRA17, Vol. 10330:34-45 of LNCS, Springer, 2017. Keywords: explicit network, from distances, k-reticulated, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59575-7.pdf#page=100.
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Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk,
Nela Lekic,
Chris Whidden and
Norbert Zeh. Hybridization Number on Three Rooted Binary Trees is EPT. In SIDMA, Vol. 30(3):1607-1631, 2016. Keywords: agreement forest, explicit network, FPT, from rooted trees, hybridization, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2136.
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Katharina Huber,
Vincent Moulton,
Mike Steel and
Taoyang Wu. Folding and unfolding phylogenetic trees and networks. In JOMB, Vol. 73(6):1761-1780, 2016. Keywords: compressed network, explicit network, FU-stable network, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, tree containment, tree sibling network. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.04438.
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Steven Kelk,
Leo van Iersel,
Celine Scornavacca and
Mathias Weller. Phylogenetic incongruence through the lens of Monadic Second Order logic. In JGAA, Vol. 20(2):189-215, 2016. Keywords: agreement forest, explicit network, FPT, from rooted trees, hybridization, minimum number, MSOL, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://jgaa.info/accepted/2016/KelkIerselScornavaccaWeller2016.20.2.pdf.
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Andreas Gunawan,
Bhaskar DasGupta and
Louxin Zhang. Locating a Tree in a Reticulation-Visible Network in Cubic Time. In RECOMB16, Vol. 9649:266 of LNBI, Springer, 2016. Keywords: cluster containment, explicit network, from clusters, from network, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, reticulation-visible network, tree containment. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02119.
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Sajad Mirzaei and
Yufeng Wu. Fast Construction of Near Parsimonious Hybridization Networks for Multiple Phylogenetic Trees. In TCBB, Vol. 13(3):565-570, 2016. Keywords: bound, explicit network, from rooted trees, heuristic, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PIRN, reconstruction, software. Note: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ywu/Papers/PIRNs-preprint.pdf.
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Philippe Gambette,
Andreas Gunawan,
Anthony Labarre,
Stéphane Vialette and
Louxin Zhang. Solving the Tree Containment Problem for Genetically Stable Networks in Quadratic Time. In IWOCA15, Vol. 9538:197-208 of LNCS, springer, 2016. Keywords: explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, genetically stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, tree containment. Note: https://hal-upec-upem.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01226035 .
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Vincent Ranwez,
Celine Scornavacca,
Jean-Philippe Doyon and
Vincent Berry. Inferring gene duplications, transfers and losses can be done in a discrete framework. In JOMB, Vol. 72(7):1811-1844, 2016. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction.
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François Chevenet,
Jean-Philippe Doyon,
Celine Scornavacca,
Edwin Jacox,
Emmanuelle Jousselin and
Vincent Berry. SylvX: a viewer for phylogenetic tree reconciliations. In BIO, Vol. 32(4):608-610, 2016. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program SylvX, software, visualization. Note: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emmanuelle_Jousselin/publication/283446016_SylvX_a_viewer_for_phylogenetic_tree_reconciliations/links/5642146108aec448fa621efa.pdf.
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Hussein A. Hejase and
Kevin J. Liu. A scalability study of phylogenetic network inference methods using empirical datasets and simulations involving a single reticulation. Vol. 17(422):1-12, 2016. Keywords: abstract network, evaluation, from sequences, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNet, Program PhyloNetworks SNaQ, reconstruction, simulation, unicyclic network. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-016-1277-1.
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Philippe Gambette,
Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk,
Fabio Pardi and
Celine Scornavacca. Do branch lengths help to locate a tree in a phylogenetic network? In BMB, Vol. 78(9):1773-1795, 2016. Keywords: branch length, explicit network, FPT, from network, from rooted trees, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, pseudo-polynomial, time consistent network, tree containment, tree sibling network. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.06285.
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Maria Anaya,
Olga Anipchenko-Ulaj,
Aisha Ashfaq,
Joyce Chiu,
Mahedi Kaiser,
Max Shoji Ohsawa,
Megan Owen,
Ella Pavlechko,
Katherine St. John,
Shivam Suleria,
Keith Thompson and
Corrine Yap. On Determining if Tree-based Networks Contain Fixed Trees. In BMB, Vol. 78(5):961-969, 2016. Keywords: explicit network, FPT, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, tree-based network. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02739.
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James Oldman,
Taoyang Wu,
Leo van Iersel and
Vincent Moulton. TriLoNet: Piecing together small networks to reconstruct reticulate evolutionary histories. In MBE, Vol. 33(8):2151-2162, 2016. Keywords: explicit network, from subnetworks, from trinets, galled tree, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program LEV1ATHAN, Program TriLoNet, reconstruction.
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Jiafan Zhu,
Yun Yu and
Luay Nakhleh. In the Light of Deep Coalescence: Revisiting Trees Within Networks. In RECOMB-CG16, Vol. 17(suppl. 14):415.271-282 of BMCB, 2016. Keywords: branch length, evaluation, explicit network, incomplete lineage sorting, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, statistical model, tree-based network, weakly displaying. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07350.
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Juan Wang. A Survey of Methods for Constructing Rooted Phylogenetic Networks. In PLoS ONE, Vol. 11(11):e0165834, 2016. Keywords: evaluation, explicit network, from clusters, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program BIMLR, Program Dendroscope, Program LNetwork, reconstruction, survey. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0165834.
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Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk and
Celine Scornavacca. Kernelizations for the hybridization number problem on multiple nonbinary trees. In JCSS, Vol. 82(6):1075-1089, 2016. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, kernelization, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Treeduce, reconstruction. Note: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4045v3.
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Edwin Jacox,
Cédric Chauve,
Gergely J. Szöllösi,
Yann Ponty and
Celine Scornavacca. EcceTERA: comprehensive gene tree-species tree reconciliation using parsimony. In BIO, Vol. 32(13):2056-2058, 2016. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, parsimony, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, Program ecceTERA. Note: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw105.
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Monika Balvociute. Flat Embeddings of Genetic and Distance Data. PhD thesis, University of Otago, 2016. Keywords: abstract network, flat, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, planar, Program FlatNJ, Program SplitsTree, split, split network. Note: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6286.
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Mareike Fischer,
Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk and
Celine Scornavacca. On Computing The Maximum Parsimony Score Of A Phylogenetic Network. In SIDMA, Vol. 29(1):559-585, 2015. Keywords: APX hard, cluster containment, explicit network, FPT, from network, from sequences, integer linear programming, level k phylogenetic network, NP complete, parsimony, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, Program MPNet, reconstruction, software. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2430.
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Katharina Huber,
Leo van Iersel,
Vincent Moulton and
Taoyang Wu. How much information is needed to infer reticulate evolutionary histories? In Systematic Biology, Vol. 64(1):102-111, 2015. Keywords: explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, from subnetworks, from trinets, identifiability, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, uniqueness. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syu076.
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Philippe Gambette,
Andreas Gunawan,
Anthony Labarre,
Stéphane Vialette and
Louxin Zhang. Locating a Tree in A Phylogenetic Network in Quadratic Time. In RECOMB15, Vol. 9029:96-107 of LNCS, Springer, 2015. Keywords: evaluation, explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, genetically stable network, nearly-stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, tree containment. Note: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01116231/en.
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Quan Nguyen and
Teemu Roos. Likelihood-based inference of phylogenetic networks from sequence data by PhyloDAG. In AlCoB15, Vol. 9199:126-140 of LNCS, springer, 2015. Keywords: BIC, explicit network, from sequences, likelihood, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloDAG, reconstruction, software. Note: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ttonteri/pub/alcob2015.pdf.
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Jittat Fakcharoenphol,
Tanee Kumpijit and
Attakorn Putwattana. A Faster Algorithm for the Tree Containment Problem for Binary Nearly Stable Phylogenetic Networks. In Proceedings of the The 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE'15), Pages 337-342, IEEE, 2015. Keywords: dynamic programming, explicit network, from network, from rooted trees, nearly-stable network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, tree containment.
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Misagh Kordi and
Mukul S. Bansal. On the Complexity of Duplication-Transfer-Loss Reconciliation with Non-Binary Gene Trees. In ISBRA15, Vol. 9096:187-198 of LNCS, springer, 2015. Keywords: duplication, from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://compbio.engr.uconn.edu/papers/Kordi_ISBRA2015.pdf.
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Yun Yu and
Luay Nakhleh. A Distance-Based Method for Inferring Phylogenetic Networks in the Presence of Incomplete Lineage Sorting. In ISBRA15, Vol. 9096:378-389 of LNCS, springer, 2015. Keywords: bootstrap, explicit network, from distances, heuristic, incomplete lineage sorting, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://bioinfo.cs.rice.edu/sites/bioinfo.cs.rice.edu/files/YuNakhleh-ISBRA15.pdf.
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Benjamin Albrecht. Computing all hybridization networks for multiple binary phylogenetic input trees. In BMCB, Vol. 16(236):1-15, 2015. Keywords: agreement forest, explicit network, exponential algorithm, FPT, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Hybroscale, Program PIRN, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0660-7.
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Maxime Morgado. Propriétés structurelles et relations des classes de réseaux phylogénétiques. Master's thesis, ENS Cachan, 2015. Keywords: compressed network, distinct-cluster network, explicit network, galled network, galled tree, level k phylogenetic network, nested network, normal network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, regular network, spread, tree containment, tree sibling network, tree-based network, tree-child network, unicyclic network.
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Yun Yu and
Luay Nakhleh. A maximum pseudo-likelihood approach for phylogenetic networks. In RECOMB-CG15, Vol. 16(Suppl 10)(S10):1-10 of BMC Genomics, BioMed Central, 2015. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, hybridization, incomplete lineage sorting, likelihood, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNet, reconstruction, tripartition distance. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-16-S10-S10.
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Sha Zhu,
James H. Degnan,
Sharyn J. Goldstein and
Bjarki Eldon. Hybrid-Lambda: simulation of multiple merger and Kingman gene genealogies in species networks and species trees. In BMCB, Vol. 16(292):1-7, 2015. Keywords: explicit network, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Hybrid-Lambda, simulation, software. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-015-0721-y.
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Gergely J. Szöllösi,
Adrián Arellano Davín,
Eric Tannier,
Vincent Daubin and
Bastien Boussau. Genome-scale phylogenetic analysis finds extensive gene transfer among fungi. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Vol. 370(1678):1-11, 2015. Keywords: duplication, from sequences, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program ALE, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0335.
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Marc Thuillard and
Didier Fraix-Burnet. Phylogenetic Trees and Networks Reduce to Phylogenies on Binary States: Does It Furnish an Explanation to the Robustness of Phylogenetic Trees against Lateral Transfers? In Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Vol. 11:213-221, 2015. [Abstract] Keywords: circular split system, explicit network, from multistate characters, outerplanar, perfect, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, planar, polynomial, reconstruction, split. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.4137%2FEBO.S28158.
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Jessica W. Leigh and
David Bryant. PopART: full-feature software for haplotype network construction. In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 6(9):1110-1116, 2015. Keywords: abstract network, from sequences, haplotype network, MedianJoining, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, population genetics, Program PopART, Program TCS, software. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12410.
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Gabriel Cardona,
Joan Carles Pons and
Francesc Rosselló. A reconstruction problem for a class of phylogenetic networks with lateral gene transfers. In ALMOB, Vol. 10(28):1-15, 2015. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program LGTnetwork, reconstruction, software, tree-based network. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13015-015-0059-z.
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Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk,
Nela Lekic and
Leen Stougie. Approximation algorithms for nonbinary agreement forests. In SIDMA, Vol. 28(1):49-66, 2014. Keywords: agreement forest, approximation, from rooted trees, hybridization, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3211.
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"Given two rooted phylogenetic trees on the same set of taxa X, the Maximum Agreement Forest (maf) problem asks to find a forest that is, in a certain sense, common to both trees and has a minimum number of components. The Maximum Acyclic Agreement Forest (maaf) problem has the additional restriction that the components of the forest cannot have conflicting ancestral relations in the input trees. There has been considerable interest in the special cases of these problems in which the input trees are required to be binary. However, in practice, phylogenetic trees are rarely binary, due to uncertainty about the precise order of speciation events. Here, we show that the general, nonbinary version of maf has a polynomial-time 4-approximation and a fixedparameter tractable (exact) algorithm that runs in O(4opoly(n)) time, where n = |X| and k is the number of components of the agreement forest minus one. Moreover, we show that a c-approximation algorithm for nonbinary maf and a d-approximation algorithm for the classical problem Directed Feedback Vertex Set (dfvs) can be combined to yield a d(c+3)-approximation for nonbinary maaf. The algorithms for maf have been implemented and made publicly available. © 2014 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics."
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Gabriel Cardona,
Mercè Llabrés,
Francesc Rosselló and
Gabriel Valiente. The comparison of tree-sibling time consistent phylogenetic networks is graph-isomorphism complete. In The Scientific World Journal, Vol. 2014(254279):1-6, 2014. Keywords: abstract network, distance between networks, from network, isomorphism, phylogenetic network, tree sibling network. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4640.
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"Several polynomial time computable metrics on the class of semibinary tree-sibling time consistent phylogenetic networks are available in the literature; in particular, the problem of deciding if two networks of this kind are isomorphic is in P. In this paper, we show that if we remove the semibinarity condition, then the problem becomes much harder. More precisely, we prove that the isomorphism problem for generic tree-sibling time consistent phylogenetic networks is polynomially equivalent to the graph isomorphism problem. Since the latter is believed not to belong to P, the chances are that it is impossible to define a metric on the class of all tree-sibling time consistent phylogenetic networks that can be computed in polynomial time. © 2014 Gabriel Cardona et al."
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Steven Kelk and
Celine Scornavacca. Constructing minimal phylogenetic networks from softwired clusters is fixed parameter tractable. In ALG, Vol. 68(4):886-915, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, FPT, from clusters, level k phylogenetic network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3653.
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"Here we show that, given a set of clusters C on a set of taxa X, where |X|=n, it is possible to determine in time f(k)×poly(n) whether there exists a level-≤k network (i.e. a network where each biconnected component has reticulation number at most k) that represents all the clusters in C in the softwired sense, and if so to construct such a network. This extends a result from Kelk et al. (in IEEE/ACM Trans. Comput. Biol. Bioinform. 9:517-534, 2012) which showed that the problem is polynomial-time solvable for fixed k. By defining "k-reticulation generators" analogous to "level-k generators", we then extend this fixed parameter tractability result to the problem where k refers not to the level but to the reticulation number of the whole network. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York."
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Hadi Poormohammadi,
Changiz Eslahchi and
Ruzbeh Tusserkani. TripNet: A Method for Constructing Rooted Phylogenetic Networks from Rooted Triplets. In PLoS ONE, Vol. 9(9):e106531, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from triplets, heuristic, level k phylogenetic network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program TripNet, reconstruction, software. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.3722.
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"The problem of constructing an optimal rooted phylogenetic network from an arbitrary set of rooted triplets is an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we present a heuristic algorithm called TripNet, which tries to construct a rooted phylogenetic network with the minimum number of reticulation nodes from an arbitrary set of rooted triplets. Despite of current methods that work for dense set of rooted triplets, a key innovation is the applicability of TripNet to non-dense set of rooted triplets. We prove some theorems to clarify the performance of the algorithm. To demonstrate the efficiency of TripNet, we compared TripNet with SIMPLISTIC. It is the only available software which has the ability to return some rooted phylogenetic network consistent with a given dense set of rooted triplets. But the results show that for complex networks with high levels, the SIMPLISTIC running time increased abruptly. However in all cases TripNet outputs an appropriate rooted phylogenetic network in an acceptable time. Also we tetsed TripNet on the Yeast data. The results show that Both TripNet and optimal networks have the same clustering and TripNet produced a level-3 network which contains only one more reticulation node than the optimal network."
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Leo van Iersel and
Vincent Moulton. Trinets encode tree-child and level-2 phylogenetic networks. In JOMB, Vol. 68(7):1707-1729, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from subnetworks, from trinets, level k phylogenetic network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0362.
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"Phylogenetic networks generalize evolutionary trees, and are commonly used to represent evolutionary histories of species that undergo reticulate evolutionary processes such as hybridization, recombination and lateral gene transfer. Recently, there has been great interest in trying to develop methods to construct rooted phylogenetic networks from triplets, that is rooted trees on three species. However, although triplets determine or encode rooted phylogenetic trees, they do not in general encode rooted phylogenetic networks, which is a potential issue for any such method. Motivated by this fact, Huber and Moulton recently introduced trinets as a natural extension of rooted triplets to networks. In particular, they showed that level-1 phylogenetic networks are encoded by their trinets, and also conjectured that all "recoverable" rooted phylogenetic networks are encoded by their trinets. Here we prove that recoverable binary level-2 networks and binary tree-child networks are also encoded by their trinets. To do this we prove two decomposition theorems based on trinets which hold for all recoverable binary rooted phylogenetic networks. Our results provide some additional evidence in support of the conjecture that trinets encode all recoverable rooted phylogenetic networks, and could also lead to new approaches to construct phylogenetic networks from trinets. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg."
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Anthony Labarre and
Sicco Verwer. Merging partially labelled trees: hardness and a declarative programming solution. In TCBB, Vol. 11(2):389-397, 2014. Keywords: abstract network, from unrooted trees, heuristic, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: https://hal-upec-upem.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00855669.
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"Intraspecific studies often make use of haplotype networks instead of gene genealogies to represent the evolution of a set of genes. Cassens et al. proposed one such network reconstruction method, based on the global maximum parsimony principle, which was later recast by the first author of the present work as the problem of finding a minimum common supergraph of a set of t partially labelled trees. Although algorithms have been proposed for solving that problem on two graphs, the complexity of the general problem on trees remains unknown. In this paper, we show that the corresponding decision problem is NP-complete for t=3. We then propose a declarative programming approach to solving the problem to optimality in practice, as well as a heuristic approach, both based on the idpsystem, and assess the performance of both methods on randomly generated data. © 2004-2012 IEEE."
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Leo van Iersel and
Steven Kelk. Kernelizations for the hybridization number problem on multiple nonbinary trees. In WG14, Vol. 8747:299-311 of LNCS, springer, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, kernelization, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Treeduce, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4045.
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Jesper Jansson and
Andrzej Lingas. Computing the rooted triplet distance between galled trees by counting triangles. In Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Vol. 25:66-78, 2014. Keywords: distance between networks, explicit network, from network, galled network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, triplet distance.
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"We consider a generalization of the rooted triplet distance between two phylogenetic trees to two phylogenetic networks. We show that if each of the two given phylogenetic networks is a so-called galled tree with n leaves then the rooted triplet distance can be computed in o(n2.687) time. Our upper bound is obtained by reducing the problem of computing the rooted triplet distance between two galled trees to that of counting monochromatic and almost-monochromatic triangles in an undirected, edge-colored graph. To count different types of colored triangles in a graph efficiently, we extend an existing technique based on matrix multiplication and obtain several new algorithmic results that may be of independent interest: (i) the number of triangles in a connected, undirected, uncolored graph with m edges can be computed in o(m1.408) time; (ii) if G is a connected, undirected, edge-colored graph with n vertices and C is a subset of the set of edge colors then the number of monochromatic triangles of G with colors in C can be computed in o(n2.687) time; and (iii) if G is a connected, undirected, edge-colored graph with n vertices and R is a binary relation on the colors that is computable in O(1) time then the number of R-chromatic triangles in G can be computed in o(n2.687) time. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."
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Ward C Wheeler. Phyletic groups on networks. In Cladistics, Vol. 30(4):447-451, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12062.
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"Three additional phyletic group types, "periphyletic," "epiphyletic", and "anaphyletic" (in addition to Hennigian mono-, para-, and polyphyletic) are defined in terms of trees and phylogenetic networks (trees with directed reticulate edges) via a generalization of the algorithmic definitions of Farris. These designations concern groups defined as monophyletic on trees, but with additional gains or losses of members from network edges. These distinctions should be useful in discussion of systems with non-vertical inheritance such as recombination between viruses, horizontal exchange between bacteria, hybridization in plants and animals, as well as human linguistic evolution. Examples are illustrated with Indo-European language groups. © The Willi Hennig Society 2013."
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Sarah Bastkowski,
Andreas Spillner and
Vincent Moulton. Fishing for minimum evolution trees with Neighbor-Nets. In IPL, Vol. 114(1-2):3-18, 2014. Keywords: circular split system, from distances, NeighborNet, phylogeny, polynomial.
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"In evolutionary biology, biologists commonly use a phylogenetic tree to represent the evolutionary history of some set of species. A common approach taken to construct such a tree is to search through the space of all possible phylogenetic trees on the set so as to find one that optimizes some score function, such as the minimum evolution criterion. However, this is hampered by the fact that the space of phylogenetic trees is extremely large in general. Interestingly, an alternative approach, which has received somewhat less attention in the literature, is to instead search for trees within some set of bipartitions or splits of the set of species in question. Here we consider the problem of searching through a set of splits that is circular. Such sets can, for example, be generated by the NeighborNet algorithm for constructing phylogenetic networks. More specifically, we present an O(n4) time algorithm for finding an optimal minimum evolution tree in a circular set of splits on a set of species of size n. In addition, using simulations, we compare the performance of this algorithm when applied to NeighborNet output with that of FastME, a leading method for searching for minimum evolution trees in tree space. We find that, even though a circular set of splits represents just a tiny fraction of the total number of possible splits of a set, the trees obtained from circular sets compare quite favorably with those obtained with FastME, suggesting that the approach could warrant further investigation. © 2013 Elsevier B.V."
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Lavanya Kannan and
Ward C Wheeler. Exactly Computing the Parsimony Scores on Phylogenetic Networks Using Dynamic Programming. In JCB, Vol. 21(4):303-319, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, exponential algorithm, from network, from sequences, parsimony, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction.
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"Scoring a given phylogenetic network is the first step that is required in searching for the best evolutionary framework for a given dataset. Using the principle of maximum parsimony, we can score phylogenetic networks based on the minimum number of state changes across a subset of edges of the network for each character that are required for a given set of characters to realize the input states at the leaves of the networks. Two such subsets of edges of networks are interesting in light of studying evolutionary histories of datasets: (i) the set of all edges of the network, and (ii) the set of all edges of a spanning tree that minimizes the score. The problems of finding the parsimony scores under these two criteria define slightly different mathematical problems that are both NP-hard. In this article, we show that both problems, with scores generalized to adding substitution costs between states on the endpoints of the edges, can be solved exactly using dynamic programming. We show that our algorithms require O(mpk) storage at each vertex (per character), where k is the number of states the character can take, p is the number of reticulate vertices in the network, m = k for the problem with edge set (i), and m = 2 for the problem with edge set (ii). This establishes an O(nmpk2) algorithm for both the problems (n is the number of leaves in the network), which are extensions of Sankoff's algorithm for finding the parsimony scores for phylogenetic trees. We will discuss improvements in the complexities and show that for phylogenetic networks whose underlying undirected graphs have disjoint cycles, the storage at each vertex can be reduced to O(mk), thus making the algorithm polynomial for this class of networks. We will present some properties of the two approaches and guidance on choosing between the criteria, as well as traverse through the network space using either of the definitions. We show that our methodology provides an effective means to study a wide variety of datasets. © Copyright 2014, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2014."
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Jialiang Yang,
Stefan Grünewald,
Yifei Xu and
Xiu-Feng Wan. Quartet-based methods to reconstruct phylogenetic networks. In BMC Systems Biology, Vol. 80(21), 2014. Keywords: abstract network, from quartets, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program QuartetMethods, Program QuartetNet, Program SplitsTree, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-8-21
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"Background: Phylogenetic networks are employed to visualize evolutionary relationships among a group of nucleotide sequences, genes or species when reticulate events like hybridization, recombination, reassortant and horizontal gene transfer are believed to be involved. In comparison to traditional distance-based methods, quartet-based methods consider more information in the reconstruction process and thus have the potential to be more accurate.Results: We introduce QuartetSuite, which includes a set of new quartet-based methods, namely QuartetS, QuartetA, and QuartetM, to reconstruct phylogenetic networks from nucleotide sequences. We tested their performances and compared them with other popular methods on two simulated nucleotide sequence data sets: one generated from a tree topology and the other from a complicated evolutionary history containing three reticulate events. We further validated these methods to two real data sets: a bacterial data set consisting of seven concatenated genes of 36 bacterial species and an influenza data set related to recently emerging H7N9 low pathogenic avian influenza viruses in China.Conclusion: QuartetS, QuartetA, and QuartetM have the potential to accurately reconstruct evolutionary scenarios from simple branching trees to complicated networks containing many reticulate events. These methods could provide insights into the understanding of complicated biological evolutionary processes such as bacterial taxonomy and reassortant of influenza viruses. © 2014 Yang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd."
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Ran Libeskind-Hadas,
Yi-Chieh Wu,
Mukul S. Bansal and
Manolis Kellis. Pareto-optimal phylogenetic tree reconciliation. In ISMB14, Vol. 30:i87-i95 of BIO, 2014. Keywords: duplication, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, Program Xscape, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu289.
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"Motivation: Phylogenetic tree reconciliation is a widely used method for reconstructing the evolutionary histories of gene families and species, hosts and parasites and other dependent pairs of entities. Reconciliation is typically performed using maximum parsimony, in which each evolutionary event type is assigned a cost and the objective is to find a reconciliation of minimum total cost. It is generally understood that reconciliations are sensitive to event costs, but little is understood about the relationship between event costs and solutions. Moreover, choosing appropriate event costs is a notoriously difficult problem. Results: We address this problem by giving an efficient algorithm for computing Pareto-optimal sets of reconciliations, thus providing the first systematic method for understanding the relationship between event costs and reconciliations. This, in turn, results in new techniques for computing event support values and, for cophylogenetic analyses, performing robust statistical tests. We provide new software tools and demonstrate their use on a number of datasets from evolutionary genomic and cophylogenetic studies. © 2014 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved."
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Kevin J. Liu,
Jingxuan Dai,
Kathy Truong,
Ying Song,
Michael H. Kohn and
Luay Nakhleh. An HMM-Based Comparative Genomic Framework for Detecting Introgression in Eukaryotes. In PLoS ONE, Vol. 10(6):e1003649, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNet-HMM. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7989.
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"One outcome of interspecific hybridization and subsequent effects of evolutionary forces is introgression, which is the integration of genetic material from one species into the genome of an individual in another species. The evolution of several groups of eukaryotic species has involved hybridization, and cases of adaptation through introgression have been already established. In this work, we report on PhyloNet-HMM-a new comparative genomic framework for detecting introgression in genomes. PhyloNet-HMM combines phylogenetic networks with hidden Markov models (HMMs) to simultaneously capture the (potentially reticulate) evolutionary history of the genomes and dependencies within genomes. A novel aspect of our work is that it also accounts for incomplete lineage sorting and dependence across loci. Application of our model to variation data from chromosome 7 in the mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) genome detected a recently reported adaptive introgression event involving the rodent poison resistance gene Vkorc1, in addition to other newly detected introgressed genomic regions. Based on our analysis, it is estimated that about 9% of all sites within chromosome 7 are of introgressive origin (these cover about 13 Mbp of chromosome 7, and over 300 genes). Further, our model detected no introgression in a negative control data set. We also found that our model accurately detected introgression and other evolutionary processes from synthetic data sets simulated under the coalescent model with recombination, isolation, and migration. Our work provides a powerful framework for systematic analysis of introgression while simultaneously accounting for dependence across sites, point mutations, recombination, and ancestral polymorphism. © 2014 Liu et al."
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Vladimir Makarenkov,
Alix Boc and
Pierre Legendre. A New Algorithm for Inferring Hybridization Events Based on the Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfers. In
Fuad Aleskerov,
Boris Goldengorin and
Panos M. Pardalos editors, Clusters, Orders, and Trees: Methods and Applications, Vol. 92 of Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Springer, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction.
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Leo van Iersel,
Steven Kelk,
Nela Lekic and
Celine Scornavacca. A practical approximation algorithm for solving massive instances of hybridization number for binary and nonbinary trees. In BMCB, Vol. 15(127):1-12, 2014. Keywords: agreement forest, approximation, explicit network, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program CycleKiller, Program TerminusEst, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-15-127.
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Yi-Chieh Wu. Computational evolutionary genomics : phylogenomic models spanning domains, genes, individuals, and species. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A., 2014. Keywords: duplication, from sequences, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogeny, Program TreeFix-DTL, reconstruction. Note: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87937.
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Monika Balvociute,
Andreas Spillner and
Vincent Moulton. FlatNJ: A Novel Network-Based Approach to Visualize Evolutionary and Biogeographical Relationships. In Systematic Biology, Vol. 63(3):383-396, 2014. Keywords: abstract network, flat, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program FlatNJ, Program SplitsTree, split network. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syu001.
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"Split networks are a type of phylogenetic network that allow visualization of conflict in evolutionary data. We present a new method for constructing such networks called FlatNetJoining (FlatNJ). A key feature of FlatNJ is that it produces networks that can be drawn in the plane in which labels may appear inside of the network. For complex data sets that involve, for example, non-neutral molecular markers, this can allow additional detail to be visualized as compared to previous methods such as split decomposition and NeighborNet. We illustrate the application of FlatNJ by applying it to whole HIV genome sequences, where recombination has taken place, fluorescent proteins in corals, where ancestral sequences are present, and mitochondrial DNA sequences from gall wasps, where biogeographical relationships are of interest. We find that the networks generated by FlatNJ can facilitate the study of genetic variation in the underlying molecular sequence data and, in particular, may help to investigate processes such as intra-locus recombination. FlatNJ has been implemented in Java and is freely available at www.uea.ac.uk/computing/software/ flatnj. [flat split system; NeighborNet; Phylogenetic network; QNet; split; split network.] © The Author(s) 2014."
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Johann-Mattis List,
Shijulal Nelson-Sathi,
Hans Geisler and
William Martin. Networks of lexical borrowing and lateral gene transfer in language and genome evolution. In BioEssays, Vol. 36(2):141-150, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, minimal lateral network, phylogenetic network, Program lingpy. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201300096.
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"Like biological species, languages change over time. As noted by Darwin, there are many parallels between language evolution and biological evolution. Insights into these parallels have also undergone change in the past 150 years. Just like genes, words change over time, and language evolution can be likened to genome evolution accordingly, but what kind of evolution? There are fundamental differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic evolution. In the former, natural variation entails the gradual accumulation of minor mutations in alleles. In the latter, lateral gene transfer is an integral mechanism of natural variation. The study of language evolution using biological methods has attracted much interest of late, most approaches focusing on language tree construction. These approaches may underestimate the important role that borrowing plays in language evolution. Network approaches that were originally designed to study lateral gene transfer may provide more realistic insights into the complexities of language evolution. Editor's suggested further reading in BioEssays Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics. © 2014 The Authors. BioEssays Published by WILEY Periodicals, Inc."
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Zhijiang Li. Fixed-Parameter Algorithm for Hybridization Number of Two Multifurcating Trees. Master's thesis, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2014. Keywords: agreement forest, explicit network, FPT, from rooted trees, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction. Note: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/53976.
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Juan Wang. A new algorithm to construct phylogenetic networks from trees. In Genetics and Molecular Research, Vol. 13(1):1456-1464, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from clusters, heuristic, phylogenetic network, Program LNetwork, Program QuickCass, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.4238/2014.March.6.4.
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"Developing appropriate methods for constructing phylogenetic networks from tree sets is an important problem, and much research is currently being undertaken in this area. BIMLR is an algorithm that constructs phylogenetic networks from tree sets. The algorithm can construct a much simpler network than other available methods. Here, we introduce an improved version of the BIMLR algorithm, QuickCass. QuickCass changes the selection strategy of the labels of leaves below the reticulate nodes, i.e., the nodes with an indegree of at least 2 in BIMLR. We show that QuickCass can construct simpler phylogenetic networks than BIMLR. Furthermore, we show that QuickCass is a polynomial-time algorithm when the output network that is constructed by QuickCass is binary. © FUNPEC-RP."
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Matthieu Willems,
Nadia Tahiri and
Vladimir Makarenkov. A new efficient algorithm for inferring explicit hybridization networks following the Neighbor-Joining principle. In JBCB, Vol. 12(5), 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from distances, heuristic, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction.
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"Several algorithms and software have been developed for inferring phylogenetic trees. However, there exist some biological phenomena such as hybridization, recombination, or horizontal gene transfer which cannot be represented by a tree topology. We need to use phylogenetic networks to adequately represent these important evolutionary mechanisms. In this article, we present a new efficient heuristic algorithm for inferring hybridization networks from evolutionary distance matrices between species. The famous Neighbor-Joining concept and the least-squares criterion are used for building networks. At each step of the algorithm, before joining two given nodes, we check if a hybridization event could be related to one of them or to both of them. The proposed algorithm finds the exact tree solution when the considered distance matrix is a tree metric (i.e. it is representable by a unique phylogenetic tree). It also provides very good hybrids recovery rates for large trees (with 32 and 64 leaves in our simulations) for both distance and sequence types of data. The results yielded by the new algorithm for real and simulated datasets are illustrated and discussed in detail. © Imperial College Press."
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Paul Cordue,
Simone Linz and
Charles Semple. Phylogenetic Networks that Display a Tree Twice. In BMB, Vol. 76(10):2664-2679, 2014. Keywords: from rooted trees, normal network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, tree-child network. Note: http://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~c.semple/papers/CLS14.pdf.
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"In the last decade, the use of phylogenetic networks to analyze the evolution of species whose past is likely to include reticulation events, such as horizontal gene transfer or hybridization, has gained popularity among evolutionary biologists. Nevertheless, the evolution of a particular gene can generally be described without reticulation events and therefore be represented by a phylogenetic tree. While this is not in contrast to each other, it places emphasis on the necessity of algorithms that analyze and summarize the tree-like information that is contained in a phylogenetic network. We contribute to the toolbox of such algorithms by investigating the question of whether or not a phylogenetic network embeds a tree twice and give a quadratic-time algorithm to solve this problem for a class of networks that is more general than tree-child networks. © 2014, Society for Mathematical Biology."
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Joel Sjöstrand,
Ali Tofigh,
Vincent Daubin,
Lars Arvestad,
Bengt Sennblad and
Jens Lagergren. A Bayesian Method for Analyzing Lateral Gene Transfer. In Systematic Biology, Vol. 63(3):409-420, 2014. Keywords: bayesian, duplication, from rooted trees, from sequences, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program JPrIME-DLTRS, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syu007.
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Adrià Alcalà Mena,
Mercè Llabrés,
Francesc Rosselló and
Pau Rullan. Tree-Child Cluster Networks. In Fundamenta Informaticae, Vol. 134(1-2):1-15, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, from clusters, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PhyloNetwork, reconstruction, tree-child network.
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Katharina Huber and
Vincent Moulton. Encoding and Constructing 1-Nested Phylogenetic Networks with Trinets. In ALG, Vol. 66(3):714-738, 2013. Keywords: explicit network, from subnetworks, from trinets, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, uniqueness. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0728.
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"Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that are used in biology to represent reticulate or non-treelike evolution. Recently, several algorithms have been developed which aim to construct phylogenetic networks from biological data using triplets, i.e. binary phylogenetic trees on 3-element subsets of a given set of species. However, a fundamental problem with this approach is that the triplets displayed by a phylogenetic network do not necessarily uniquely determine or encode the network. Here we propose an alternative approach to encoding and constructing phylogenetic networks, which uses phylogenetic networks on 3-element subsets of a set, or trinets, rather than triplets. More specifically, we show that for a special, well-studied type of phylogenetic network called a 1-nested network, the trinets displayed by a 1-nested network always encode the network. We also present an efficient algorithm for deciding whether a dense set of trinets (i.e. one that contains a trinet on every 3-element subset of a set) can be displayed by a 1-nested network or not and, if so, constructs that network. In addition, we discuss some potential new directions that this new approach opens up for constructing and comparing phylogenetic networks. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC."
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Leo van Iersel and
Simone Linz. A quadratic kernel for computing the hybridization number of multiple trees. In IPL, Vol. 113:318-323, 2013. Keywords: explicit network, FPT, from rooted trees, kernelization, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Clustistic, Program MaafB, Program PIRN, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4067, poster.
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"It has recently been shown that the NP-hard problem of calculating the minimum number of hybridization events that is needed to explain a set of rooted binary phylogenetic trees by means of a hybridization network is fixed-parameter tractable if an instance of the problem consists of precisely two such trees. In this paper, we show that this problem remains fixed-parameter tractable for an arbitrarily large set of rooted binary phylogenetic trees. In particular, we present a quadratic kernel. © 2013 Elsevier B.V."
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Chris Whidden,
Robert G. Beiko and
Norbert Zeh. Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Maximum Agreement Forests. In SICOMP, Vol. 42(4):1431-1466, 2013. Keywords: agreement forest, explicit network, FPT, from rooted trees, hybridization, minimum number, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program HybridInterleave, reconstruction, SPR distance. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2664, slides.
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"We present new and improved fixed-parameter algorithms for computing maximum agreement forests of pairs of rooted binary phylogenetic trees. The size of such a forest for two trees corresponds to their subtree prune-and-regraft distance and, if the agreement forest is acyclic, to their hybridization number. These distance measures are essential tools for understanding reticulate evolution. Our algorithm for computing maximum acyclic agreement forests is the first depth-bounded search algorithm for this problem. Our algorithms substantially outperform the best previous algorithms for these problems. © 2013 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics."
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Stefan Grünewald,
Andreas Spillner,
Sarah Bastkowski,
Anja Bögershausen and
Vincent Moulton. SuperQ: Computing Supernetworks from Quartets. In TCBB, Vol. 10(1):151-160, 2013. Keywords: abstract network, circular split system, from quartets, heuristic, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program QNet, Program SplitsTree, Program SuperQ, software, split network.
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"Supertrees are a commonly used tool in phylogenetics to summarize collections of partial phylogenetic trees. As a generalization of supertrees, phylogenetic supernetworks allow, in addition, the visual representation of conflict between the trees that is not possible to observe with a single tree. Here, we introduce SuperQ, a new method for constructing such supernetworks (SuperQ is freely available at >www.uea.ac.uk/computing/superq.). It works by first breaking the input trees into quartet trees, and then stitching these together to form a special kind of phylogenetic network, called a split network. This stitching process is performed using an adaptation of the QNet method for split network reconstruction employing a novel approach to use the branch lengths from the input trees to estimate the branch lengths in the resulting network. Compared with previous supernetwork methods, SuperQ has the advantage of producing a planar network. We compare the performance of SuperQ to the Z-closure and Q-imputation supernetwork methods, and also present an analysis of some published data sets as an illustration of its applicability. © 2004-2012 IEEE."
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Teresa Piovesan and
Steven Kelk. A simple fixed parameter tractable algorithm for computing the hybridization number of two (not necessarily binary) trees. In TCBB, Vol. 10(1):18-25, 2013. Keywords: FPT, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program TerminusEst, reconstruction. Note: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6090.
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"Here, we present a new fixed parameter tractable algorithm to compute the hybridization number (r) of two rooted, not necessarily binary phylogenetic trees on taxon set (X) in time ((6r r) · poly(n)), where (n= |X|). The novelty of this approach is its use of terminals, which are maximal elements of a natural partial order on (X), and several insights from the softwired clusters literature. This yields a surprisingly simple and practical bounded-search algorithm and offers an alternative perspective on the underlying combinatorial structure of the hybridization number problem. © 2004-2012 IEEE."
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Stephen J. Willson. Reconstruction of certain phylogenetic networks from their tree-average distances. In BMB, Vol. 75(10):1840-1878, 2013. Keywords: explicit network, from distances, galled tree, normal network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, unicyclic network. Note: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~swillson/Tree-AverageReconPaper9.pdf.
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"Trees are commonly utilized to describe the evolutionary history of a collection of biological species, in which case the trees are called phylogenetic trees. Often these are reconstructed from data by making use of distances between extant species corresponding to the leaves of the tree. Because of increased recognition of the possibility of hybridization events, more attention is being given to the use of phylogenetic networks that are not necessarily trees. This paper describes the reconstruction of certain such networks from the tree-average distances between the leaves. For a certain class of phylogenetic networks, a polynomial-time method is presented to reconstruct the network from the tree-average distances. The method is proved to work if there is a single reticulation cycle. © 2013 Society for Mathematical Biology."
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Peter J. Humphries,
Simone Linz and
Charles Semple. On the complexity of computing the temporal hybridization number for two phylogenies. In DAM, Vol. 161:871-880, 2013. Keywords: agreement forest, APX hard, characterization, from rooted trees, hybridization, NP complete, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction, time consistent network. Note: http://ab.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/people/linz/publications/TAFapx.pdf.
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"Phylogenetic networks are now frequently used to explain the evolutionary history of a set of species for which a collection of gene trees, reconstructed from genetic material of different parts of the species' genomes, reveal inconsistencies. However, in the context of hybridization, the reconstructed networks are often not temporal. If a hybridization network is temporal, then it satisfies the time constraint of instantaneously occurring hybridization events; i.e. all species that are involved in such an event coexist in time. Furthermore, although a collection of phylogenetic trees can often be merged into a hybridization network that is temporal, many algorithms do not necessarily find such a network since their primary optimization objective is to minimize the number of hybridization events. In this paper, we present a characterization for when two rooted binary phylogenetic trees admit a temporal hybridization network. Furthermore, we show that the underlying optimization problem is APX-hard and, therefore, NP-hard. Thus, unless P=NP, it is unlikely that there are efficient algorithms for either computing an exact solution or approximating it within a ratio arbitrarily close to one. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."
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Yufeng Wu. An Algorithm for Constructing Parsimonious Hybridization Networks with Multiple Phylogenetic Trees. In RECOMB13, Vol. 7821:291-303 of LNCS, springer, 2013. Keywords: explicit network, exponential algorithm, from rooted trees, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program PIRN, reconstruction. Note: http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~ywu/Papers/ExactNetRecomb2013.pdf.
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"Phylogenetic network is a model for reticulate evolution. Hybridization network is one type of phylogenetic network for a set of discordant gene trees, and "displays" each gene tree. A central computational problem on hybridization networks is: given a set of gene trees, reconstruct the minimum (i.e. most parsimonious) hybridization network that displays each given gene tree. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and existing approaches for this problem are either heuristics or make simplifying assumptions (e.g. work with only two input trees or assume some topological properties). In this paper, we develop an exact algorithm (called PIRNC ) for inferring the minimum hybridization networks from multiple gene trees. The PIRNC algorithm does not rely on structural assumptions. To the best of our knowledge, PIRN C is the first exact algorithm for this formulation. When the number of reticulation events is relatively small (say four or fewer), PIRNC runs reasonably efficient even for moderately large datasets. For building more complex networks, we also develop a heuristic version of PIRNC called PIRNCH. Simulation shows that PIRNCH usually produces networks with fewer reticulation events than those by an existing method. © 2013 Springer-Verlag."
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Mukul S. Bansal,
Eric J. Alm and
Manolis Kellis. Reconciliation Revisited: Handling Multiple Optima when Reconciling with Duplication, Transfer, and Loss. In RECOMB13, Vol. 7821:1-13 of LNCS, springer, 2013. Keywords: duplication, from rooted trees, from species tree, loss, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, Program RANGER-DTL, reconstruction. Note: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mukul/Bansal_RECOMB2013.pdf.
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"Phylogenetic tree reconciliation is a powerful approach for inferring evolutionary events like gene duplication, horizontal gene transfer, and gene loss, which are fundamental to our understanding of molecular evolution. While Duplication-Loss (DL) reconciliation leads to a unique maximum-parsimony solution, Duplication-Transfer-Loss (DTL) reconciliation yields a multitude of optimal solutions, making it difficult the infer the true evolutionary history of the gene family. Here, we present an effective, efficient, and scalable method for dealing with this fundamental problem in DTL reconciliation. Our approach works by sampling the space of optimal reconciliations uniformly at random and aggregating the results. We present an algorithm to efficiently sample the space of optimal reconciliations uniformly at random in O(mn 2) time, where m and n denote the number of genes and species, respectively. We use these samples to understand how different optimal reconciliations vary in their node mapping and event assignments, and to investigate the impact of varying event costs. © 2013 Springer-Verlag."
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Jialiang Yang,
Stefan Grünewald and
Xiu-Feng Wan. Quartet-Net: A Quartet Based Method to Reconstruct Phylogenetic Networks. In MBE, Vol. 30(5):1206-1217, 2013. Keywords: from quartets, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program QuartetNet, reconstruction.
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"Phylogenetic networks can model reticulate evolutionary events such as hybridization, recombination, and horizontal gene transfer. However, reconstructing such networks is not trivial. Popular character-based methods are computationally inefficient, whereas distance-based methods cannot guarantee reconstruction accuracy because pairwise genetic distances only reflect partial information about a reticulate phylogeny. To balance accuracy and computational efficiency, here we introduce a quartet-based method to construct a phylogenetic network from a multiple sequence alignment. Unlike distances that only reflect the relationship between a pair of taxa, quartets contain information on the relationships among four taxa; these quartets provide adequate capacity to infer a more accurate phylogenetic network. In applications to simulated and biological data sets, we demonstrate that this novel method is robust and effective in reconstructing reticulate evolutionary events and it has the potential to infer more accurate phylogenetic distances than other conventional phylogenetic network construction methods such as Neighbor-Joining, Neighbor-Net, and Split Decomposition. This method can be used in constructing phylogenetic networks from simple evolutionary events involving a few reticulate events to complex evolutionary histories involving a large number of reticulate events. A software called Quartet-Net is implemented and available at http://sysbio.cvm.msstate.edu/QuartetNet/. © 2013 The Author."
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Thi-Hau Nguyen,
Vincent Ranwez,
Stéphanie Pointet,
Anne-Muriel Chifolleau Arigon,
Jean-Philippe Doyon and
Vincent Berry. Reconciliation and local gene tree rearrangement can be of mutual profit. In ALMOB, Vol. 8(12), 2013. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from rooted trees, heuristic, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program Mowgli, Program MowgliNNI, Program Prunier, reconstruction, software.
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"Background: Reconciliation methods compare gene trees and species trees to recover evolutionary events such as duplications, transfers and losses explaining the history and composition of genomes. It is well-known that gene trees inferred from molecular sequences can be partly erroneous due to incorrect sequence alignments as well as phylogenetic reconstruction artifacts such as long branch attraction. In practice, this leads reconciliation methods to overestimate the number of evolutionary events. Several methods have been proposed to circumvent this problem, by collapsing the unsupported edges and then resolving the obtained multifurcating nodes, or by directly rearranging the binary gene trees. Yet these methods have been defined for models of evolution accounting only for duplications and losses, i.e. can not be applied to handle prokaryotic gene families.Results: We propose a reconciliation method accounting for gene duplications, losses and horizontal transfers, that specifically takes into account the uncertainties in gene trees by rearranging their weakly supported edges. Rearrangements are performed on edges having a low confidence value, and are accepted whenever they improve the reconciliation cost. We prove useful properties on the dynamic programming matrix used to compute reconciliations, which allows to speed-up the tree space exploration when rearrangements are generated by Nearest Neighbor Interchanges (NNI) edit operations. Experiments on synthetic data show that gene trees modified by such NNI rearrangements are closer to the correct simulated trees and lead to better event predictions on average. Experiments on real data demonstrate that the proposed method leads to a decrease in the reconciliation cost and the number of inferred events. Finally on a dataset of 30 k gene families, this reconciliation method shows a ranking of prokaryotic phyla by transfer rates identical to that proposed by a different approach dedicated to transfer detection [BMCBIOINF 11:324, 2010, PNAS 109(13):4962-4967, 2012].Conclusions: Prokaryotic gene trees can now be reconciled with their species phylogeny while accounting for the uncertainty of the gene tree. More accurate and more precise reconciliations are obtained with respect to previous parsimony algorithms not accounting for such uncertainties [LNCS 6398:93-108, 2010, BIOINF 28(12): i283-i291, 2012].A software implementing the method is freely available at http://www.atgc-montpellier.fr/Mowgli/. © 2013 Nguyen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd."
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Hoa Vu,
Francis Chin,
Wing-Kai Hon,
Henry Leung,
Kunihiko Sadakane,
Wing-Kin Sung and
Siu-Ming Yiu. Reconstructing k-Reticulated Phylogenetic Network from a Set of Gene Trees. In ISBRA13, Vol. 7875:112-124 of LNCS, springer, 2013. Keywords: from rooted trees, k-reticulated, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, polynomial, Program ARTNET, Program CMPT, reconstruction. Note: http://grid.cs.gsu.edu/~xguo9/publications/2013_Cloud%20computing%20for%20de%20novo%20metagenomic%20sequence%20assembly.pdf#page=123.
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"The time complexity of existing algorithms for reconstructing a level-x phylogenetic network increases exponentially in x. In this paper, we propose a new classification of phylogenetic networks called k-reticulated network. A k-reticulated network can model all level-k networks and some level-x networks with x > k. We design algorithms for reconstructing k-reticulated network (k = 1 or 2) with minimum number of hybrid nodes from a set of m binary trees, each with n leaves in O(mn 2) time. The implication is that some level-x networks with x > k can now be reconstructed in a faster way. We implemented our algorithm (ARTNET) and compared it with CMPT. We show that ARTNET outperforms CMPT in terms of running time and accuracy. We also consider the case when there does not exist a 2-reticulated network for the input trees. We present an algorithm computing a maximum subset of the species set so that a new set of subtrees can be combined into a 2-reticulated network. © 2013 Springer-Verlag."
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Mukul S. Bansal,
Guy Banay,
Timothy J. Harlow,
J. Peter Gogarten and
Ron Shamir. Systematic inference of highways of horizontal gene transfer in prokaryotes. In BIO, Vol. 29(5):571-579, 2013. Keywords: duplication, explicit network, from species tree, from unrooted trees, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program HiDe, Program RANGER-DTL, reconstruction. Note: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mukul/Bansal_Highways_Bioinformatics_2013.pdf.
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Eric Bapteste,
Leo van Iersel,
Axel Janke,
Scott Kelchner,
Steven Kelk,
James O. McInerney,
David A. Morrison,
Luay Nakhleh,
Mike Steel,
Leen Stougie and
James B. Whitfield. Networks: expanding evolutionary thinking. In Trends in Genetics, Vol. 29(8):439-441, 2013. Keywords: |
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