RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Growing Phylogenetic Trees Using Hierarchical Clustering
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2022.02.08.479565
DO 10.1101/2022.02.08.479565
A1 Eberhard, Onno
YR 2022
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/02/10/2022.02.08.479565.abstract
AB 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.