The computational complexity of inferring rooted phylogenies by parsimony (Q1086183)
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The computational complexity of inferring rooted phylogenies by parsimony (English)
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1986
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In systematics, parsimony methods construct phylogenies, or evolutionary trees, in which characters evolve with the least evolutionary change. The Camin-Sokal and Dollo parsimony criteria are used to construct phylogenies from discrete characters. Variations of these problems depend on whether characters are: cladistic or qualitative, binary or multistate. The authors proved that the basic variants of these problems are all NP-complete.
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computational complexity
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rooted phylogenies
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evolutionary trees
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evolutionary change
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Camin-Sokal and Dollo parsimony criteria
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cladistic
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qualitative
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binary
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multistate
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NP-complete
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