Does PC-mer Excel in Alignment-Free Phylogenetics?

Original title: An Assessment of PC-mer’s Performance in Alignment-Free Phylogenetic Tree Construction

Authors: Saeedeh Akbari Rokn Abadi, Melika Honarmand, Ali Hajialinaghi, Somayyeh Koohi

In the world of bioinformatics, comparing sequences is crucial for understanding genes, diseases, and more. Traditional methods take time aligning sequences, especially with big data. To speed things up, alignment-free methods emerged, focusing on scores rather than alignment itself.

Original article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12898