Authors
Cristian Zambrano‐Vega, Antonio J Nebro, José F Aldana‐Montes
Publication date
2016/7
Journal
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume
7
Issue
7
Pages
800-805
Description
- Phylogenetic inference is the process of searching and reconstructing the best phylogenetic tree that explains the evolution of species from a given data set. It is considered as an NP‐hard problem due to the computational complexity required to find the optimal phylogenetic trees in the space of all the possible topologies.
- We have developed MO‐Phylogenetics, a software tool to infer phylogenetic trees optimizing two reconstruction criteria simultaneously, integrating a framework for multi‐objective optimization with two phylogenetic software packages.
- As a result, researchers in life sciences have at their disposal a high‐performance tool including a number of multi‐objective metaheuristics that can be applied to phylogenetic inference using the maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood as objectives to be optimized at the same time.
Scholar articles
C Zambrano‐Vega, AJ Nebro, JF Aldana‐Montes - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2016