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Distance based phylogenetic reconstruction methods use the evolutionary distances between species in order to reconstruct the tree spanning them. This paper continues the line of research which attempts to adjust to each given set of input sequences a distance function which maximizes the expected accuracy of the reconstructed tree. We demonstrate both analytically and experimentally that by deliberately assuming an oversimplified evolutionary model, it is possible to increase the accuracy of reconstruction.
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Doerr, D., Gronau, I., Moran, S., Yavneh, I. (2011). Stochastic Errors vs. Modeling Errors in Distance Based Phylogenetic Reconstructions. In: Przytycka, T.M., Sagot, MF. (eds) Algorithms in Bioinformatics. WABI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6833. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23038-7_5
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