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A deterministic algorithm for building the majority rule consensus tree of an input collection of conflicting phylogenetic trees with identical leaf labels is presented. Its worst-case running time is O(n k), where n is the size of the leaf label set and k is the number of input phylogenetic trees. This is optimal since the input size is Ω(n k). Experimental results show that the algorithm is fast in practice.
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Jansson, J., Shen, C., Sung, WK. (2013). An Optimal Algorithm for Building the Majority Rule Consensus Tree. In: Deng, M., Jiang, R., Sun, F., Zhang, X. (eds) Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37195-0_8
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