Title
Molecular evolutionary phylogenetic trees based on minimum description length principle
Abstract
Ever since the discovery of a molecular clock, many methods have been, developed to reconstruct the molecular evolutionary phylogenetic trees. We deal with this problem from the viewpoint of an inductive inference and apply J. Rissanen's (1986) minimum description length principle to extract the minimum complexity phylogenetic tree. Our method describes the complexity of molecular phylogenetic tree by three terms which are related to the tree topology, the sum of branch lengths and the difference between the model and the data measured by logarithmic likelihood. Five mitochondrial DNA sequences from human, common chimpanzee, pygmy chimpanzee, gorilla and orangutan are used for investigating the validity of this method. It is suggested that this method is superior to the traditional method in that it still shows good accuracy even near the root of phylogenetic trees.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1109/HICSS.1995.375340
System Sciences, 1995. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Hawaii International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
DNA,biology computing,genetics,inference mechanisms,trees (mathematics),branch lengths,complexity,inductive inference,logarithmic likelihood,minimum complexity phylogenetic tree,minimum description length principle,mitochondrial DNA sequences,molecular evolutionary phylogenetic trees,tree topology
Phylogenetic tree,Tree rearrangement,Computer science,Minimum description length,Algorithm,Common chimpanzee,Computational phylogenetics,Bioinformatics,Phylogenetics,Management science,Molecular clock,Phylogenetic network
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
5
0-8186-6930-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F Ren1212.94
Hiroshi Tanaka294.43
Fukuda, N.300.34
Takashi Gojobori4439241.79