Lower Bounds on Sequence Lengths Required to Recover the Evolutionary Tree (Extended Abstract)
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In this paper we study the sequence length requirements of distance-based evolutionary tree building algorithms in the Jukes-Cantor model of evolution. By deriving lower bounds on sequence lengths required to recover the evolutionary tree topology correctly, we show that two algorithms, the Short Quartet Method and the Harmonic Greedy Triplets algorithms have optimal sequence length requirements