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The comparison of rooted phylogenetic trees is essential to querying phylogenetic databases such as TreeBASE. Current comparison methods are based on either tree edit distances or common subtrees. However, a limitation of such methods is their inherent complexity. In this paper, a new distance over fully resolved phylogenetic trees, the transposition distance, is described which is based on a well-known bijection between perfect matchings and phylogenetic trees, and simple linear-time algorithms are presented for computing the new distance.
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Valiente, G. (2005). A Fast Algorithmic Technique for Comparing Large Phylogenetic Trees. In: Consens, M., Navarro, G. (eds) String Processing and Information Retrieval. SPIRE 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3772. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11575832_41
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