Phylogenies without Branch Bounds: Contracting the Short, Pruning the Deep

@article{Daskalakis2011PhylogeniesWB,
  title={Phylogenies without Branch Bounds: Contracting the Short, Pruning the Deep},
  author={Constantinos Daskalakis and Elchanan Mossel and S{\'e}bastien Roch},
  journal={SIAM J. Discret. Math.},
  year={2011},
  volume={25},
  pages={872-893}
}
We introduce a new phylogenetic reconstruction algorithm which, unlike most previous rigorous inference techniques, does not rely on assumptions regarding the branch lengths or the depth of the tree. The algorithm returns a forest which is guaranteed to contain all edges that are (1) sufficiently long and (2) sufficiently close to the leaves. How much of the true tree is recovered depends on the sequence length provided. The algorithm is distance-based and runs in polynomial time. 
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