Clustered SplitsNetworks

  • Authors:
  • Lichen Bao;Sergey Bereg

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA TX 75080;Department of Computer Science Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA TX 75080

  • Venue:
  • COCOA 2008 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We address the problem of constructing phylogenetic networks using two criteria: the number of cycles and the fit value of the network. Traditionally the fit value is the main objective for evaluating phylogenetic networks. However, a small number of cycles in a network is desired and pointed out in several publications.We propose a new phylogenetic network called CS-networkand a method for constructing it. The method is based on the well-known splitstree method. A CS-network contains a face which is k-cycle, k驴 3 (not as splitstree). We discuss difficulties of using non-parallelogram faces in splitstree networks. Our method involves clustering and optimization of weights of the network edges.The algorithm for constructing the underlying graph (except the optimization step) has a polynomial time. Experimental results show a good performance of our algorithm.