Title :
A new distance computing method for DNA sequences in phylogenetic analysis
Author :
Juan Wang ; Maozu Guo ; Kai Che ; Chunyu Wang ; Xiaoyan Liu ; Yang Liu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China
Abstract :
In this paper we proposed a new distance computing method for DNA sequences. Given a set of species, the method first codes the DNA sequences of each species into a characteristic vector, and then computes a distance matrix for the set of species based on these characteristic vectors. The distance matrix obtained can be used to construct phylogenetic trees for phylogenetic analysis. Such a method bypasses the complexity of performing multiple sequence alignments and avoids the ambiguity of choosing individual genes for species tree construction.
Keywords :
DNA; biology computing; evolution (biological); genetics; matrix algebra; vectors; DNA sequences; characteristic vector; distance computing method; distance matrix; multiple sequence alignments; phylogenetic analysis; phylogenetic trees; species tree construction; Bioinformatics; DNA; Educational institutions; Genomics; Phylogeny; Vectors; Vegetation; DNA; distance; phylogenetic analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2013 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shenyang
DOI :
10.1109/FSKD.2013.6816284
