A Method for Constructing Phylogenetic Tree Based on a Dissimilarity Matrix

作者:Zhu, Wen; Liao, Bo*; Li, Renfa
来源:MATCH-Communications in Mathematical and in Computer Chemistry, 2010, 63(2): 483-492.

摘要

A method for constructing phylogenetic tree based on a dissimilarity matrix is proposed. In the dissimilarity matrix, the smaller element is, the more similar are the species. We translate the dissimilarity matrix to a similarity matrix based on the proposed rules, which is reflective and symmetric. The transitive closure of the obtained similarity matrix is used to construct a phylogenetic tree.