Commun. Korean Math. Soc. 2019; 34(3): 1005-1014
Online first article July 8, 2019 Printed July 31, 2019
https://doi.org/10.4134/CKMS.c180139
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Seong-Hun Paeng, Chunjae Park
Konkuk University; Konkuk University
A new simple method is proposed for reconstructing phylogenetic trees, which we call the {\it spectral method}. The most common distance based method is the neighbor-joining method which is based on the minimum evolution principle. The spectral method shows similar performance to the neighbor-joining method for simulated data generated by \texttt{seq-gen}. For real data, the spectral method shows much better performance than the neighbor-joining method. Hence it can be a complementary method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.
Keywords: spectrum\and phylogenetic tree
MSC numbers: 92D15
Supported by: The first author was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the Na-tional Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education(NRF-2016R1D1A1B03931459). Also this paper was written as part of Konkuk University’s re-
search support program for its faculty on sabbatical leave in 2014.
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