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FastJoin, an improved neighbor-joining algorithm

J. Wang, Guo, M. - Z., and Xing, L. L., FastJoin, an improved neighbor-joining algorithm, vol. 11. pp. 1909-1922, 2012.

Reconstructing the evolutionary history of a set of species is an elementary problem in biology, and methods for solving this problem are evaluated based on two characteristics: accuracy and efficiency. Neighbor-joining reconstructs phylogenetic trees by iteratively picking a pair of nodes to merge as a new node until only one node remains; due to its good accuracy and speed, it has been embraced by the phylogeny research community. With the advent of large amounts of data, improved fast and precise methods for reconstructing evolutionary trees have become necessary.

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