The challenge of constructing large phylogenetic trees.

Abstract:

:The amount of sequence data available to reconstruct the evolutionary history of genes and species has increased 20-fold in the past decade. Consequently the size of phylogenetic analyses has grown as well, and phylogenetic methods, algorithms and their implementations have struggled to keep pace. Computational and other challenges raised by this burgeoning database emerge at several stages of analysis, from the optimal assembly of large data matrices from sequence databases, to the efficient construction of trees from these large matrices and the piece-wise assembly of 'supertrees' from those trees in turn. A final challenge is posed by the difficulty of visualizing and making inferences from trees that might soon routinely contain thousands of species.

journal_name

Trends Plant Sci

journal_title

Trends in plant science

authors

Sanderson MJ,Driskell AC

doi

10.1016/S1360-1385(03)00165-1

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-08-01 00:00:00

pages

374-9

issue

8

eissn

1360-1385

issn

1878-4372

pii

S1360-1385(03)00165-1

journal_volume

8

pub_type

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