Title
The Generalized Robinson-Foulds Distance for Phylogenetic Trees
Abstract
The Robinson-Foulds (RF) distance, one of the most widely used metrics for comparing phylogenetic trees, has the advantage of being intuitive, with a natural interpretation in terms of common splits, and it can be computed in linear time, but it has a very low resolution, and it may become trivial for phylogenetic trees with overlapping taxa, that is, phylogenetic trees that share some but not all of their leaf labels. In this article, we study the properties of the Generalized Robinson-Foulds (GRF) distance, a recently proposed metric for comparing any structures that can be described by multisets of multisets of labels, when applied to rooted phylogenetic trees with overlapping taxa, which are described by sets of clusters, that is, by sets of sets of labels. We show that the GRF distance has a very high resolution, it can also be computed in linear time, and it is not (uniformly) equivalent to the RF distance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1089/cmb.2021.0342
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Keywords
DocType
Volume
metrics, phylogenetic tree, Robinson-Foulds distance
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
1066-5277
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mercè Llabrés100.34
Francesc Rosselló224429.09
Gabriel Valiente300.34