TY - JOUR T1 - Growing Phylogenetic Trees Using Hierarchical Clustering JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2022.02.08.479565 SP - 2022.02.08.479565 AU - Onno Eberhard Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/02/10/2022.02.08.479565.abstract N2 - We compare mitochondrial DNA of different species to build a phylogenetic tree. The main challenge is that the calculation of the Levenshtein distance is very slow for large sequences. We introduce an approximate scheme which uses Levenshtein for lower-level details and a fast distance based on sequence length for high-level attributes. The tree is built using average linkage hierarchical clustering.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest. ER -