Related Papers

To cite PhyloMeasures in your publications, you can refer to the following paper:

  • Tsirogiannis, C. and B. Sandel. In prep. PhyloMeasures: A Package for Computing Phylogenetic Biodiversity Measures and Their Statistical Moments.

There are also several papers that describe in detail the algorithms used in PhyloMeasures. Here are the relevant papers for different measures that appear in the package:

The following paper describes mainly the algorithms used for computing the value and the statistical moments of the MPD:

  • Tsirogiannis, C., B. Sandel and D. Cheliotis. 2012. Efficient Computation of Popular Phylogenetic Tree Measures. Algorithms in Bioinformatics, LNCS 7534: 30-43.

This paper describes efficient algorithms for computing the statistical moments of the PD and the MNTD:

  • Tsirogiannis, C., B. Sandel and A. Kalvisa. 2014. New algorithms for computing phylogenetic biodiversity. Algorithms in Bioinformatics, LNCS 8701: 187-203.
 
For the algorithms used by the CBL and the CD, you can cite the following paper:

  • Tsirogiannis, C. and B. Sandel. In prep. Fast Computation of Measures of Phylogenetic Beta Diversity.