Support vector machines (SVMs) have considerable potential as classifiers of remotely
sensed data. A constraint on their application in remote sensing has been their binary …

A comprehensive account of both basic and advanced material in phylogeny estimation,
focusing on computational and statistical issues. No background in biology or computer …

The enormous complexity of biological systems at the molecular level must be answered
with powerful computational methods. Computational biology is a young field, but has seen …

We analyze the performance of quartet methods in phylogenetic reconstruction. These
methods first compute four-taxon trees (4-trees) and then use a combinatorial algorithm to …

We present QNet, a method for constructing split networks from weighted quartet trees. QNet
can be viewed as a quartet analogue of the distance-based Neighbor-Net (NNet) method for …

This thesis concerns a remarkable new scientific development that advances the state of the
art in the field of data mining, or searching for previously unknown but meaningful patterns in …

The Minimum Quartet Tree Cost problem is to construct an optimal weight tree from the 3
(n4) weighted quartet topologies on n objects, where optimality means that the summed …

We present the results of a large-scale experimental study of quartet-based methods
(quartet cleaning and puzzling) for phylogeny reconstruction. Our experiments include a …

Phylogenetic networks can model reticulate evolutionary events such as hybridization,
recombination, and horizontal gene transfer. However, reconstructing such networks is not …

In phylogenetics, the consensus problem consists in summarizing a set of phylogenetic trees
that all classify the same set of species into a single tree. Several definitions of consensus …