Beschreibung:
Given a fixed set of operational taxonomic units (OTUs), when studying their evolutionary relationships among each other, a common way of depicting those is to construct a phylogenetic tree, a graph-theoretic tree with a root, that is the common ancestor (which one assumes to exist). Herein each leaf represents a unique OTU and edges have real positive lengths representing the evolutionary distance of some kind, which can be time, but also other metrics. Nowadays, those trees are generated from multiple measured sequence data such as DNA, RNA or protein sequences, and having various measure...