Thank you Graham! This is exactly what I was looking for. It does not solve the minimum PD issue, but possibly these algorithms can be adapted for that.
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Graham Gower <graham.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Leonardo, > > Minh et al. have two papers related to this. > > http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/55/5/769.full.pdf > http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/6/586.full.pdf > > Their software is available, which the manual says is GPL. I didn't > see any source code, so you might have to ask if you want it. > http://www.cibiv.at/software/pda/ > > -Graham > > On 14 November 2014 03:58, Leonardo Ré Jorge <leonardorejo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear list members, > > > > I am studying the phylogenetic structure of interactions, and in order to > > build null models I need to calculate, for a given phylogeny with N > > species, what is the subset K (for K = 1 to N) of the species with > maximum > > (and minumum) phylogenetic diversity, measured as mean phylogenetic > > distance and/or PD. > > After looking up, it does not look like a trivial problem as it would > seem > > at first thought, and I am struggling to find some already written code, > or > > at least some algorithm or strategy to measure this. Do you have any > advice? > > > > Best regards, > > Leonardo R. Jorge > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > > Searchable archive at > http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/ > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
