Optimizing taxon addition order and branch lengths in the construction of phylogenetic trees using maximum likelihood.

Published in: Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology (2020)

Taxon addition order and branch lengths are optimized by genetic algorithms (GAS) within the fastDNAml algorithm for constructing phylogenetic trees of high likelihood. Results suggest that optimizing the order in which taxa are added improves the likelihood of the resulting trees.

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