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Recombination plays an important role in creating genetic diversity within species, and inferring past recombination events is central to many problems in genetics. Given a set M of sampled sequences, finding an evolutionary history for M with the minimum number of recombination events is a computationally very challenging problem. In this paper, we present a novel branch and bound algorithm for tackling that problem. Our method is shown to be far more efficient than the only preexisting exact method, described in [1]. Our software implementing the algorithm discussed in this paper is publicly available.
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Lyngsø, R.B., Song, Y.S., Hein, J. (2005). Minimum Recombination Histories by Branch and Bound. In: Casadio, R., Myers, G. (eds) Algorithms in Bioinformatics. WABI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557067_20
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