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Multi-SpaM: a Maximum-Likelihood approach to Phylogeny reconstruction based on Multiple Spaced-Word Matches
Motivation: Word-based or `alignment-free' methods for phylogeny reconstruction are much faster than traditional approaches, but they are generally less accurate. Most of these methods calculate pairwise distances for a set of input sequences, for example from word frequencies, from so-called spaced-word matches or from the average length of common substrings. Results: In this paper, we propose the first word-based approach to tree reconstruction that is based on multiple sequence comparison and Maximum Likelihood. Our algorithm first samples small, gap-free alignments involving four taxa each. For each of these alignments, it then calculates a quartet tree and, finally, the program Quartet MaxCut is used to infer a super tree topology for the full set of input taxa from the calculated quartet trees. Experimental results show that trees calculated with our approach are of high quality. Availability: The source code of the program is available at https://github.com/tdencker/multi-SpaM Contact: thomas.dencker@stud.uni-goettingen.de
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