Package: TreeDist 2.14.0.9001

TreeDist: Calculate and Map Distances Between Phylogenetic Trees

Implements measures of tree similarity, including information-based generalized Robinson-Foulds distances (Phylogenetic Information Distance, Clustering Information Distance, Matching Split Information Distance; Smith 2020) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa614>; Jaccard-Robinson-Foulds distances (Bocker et al. 2013) <doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40453-5_13>, including the Nye et al. (2006) metric <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti720>; the Matching Split Distance (Bogdanowicz & Giaro 2012) <doi:10.1109/TCBB.2011.48>; the Hierarchical Mutual Information (Perotti et al. 2015) <doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.92.062825>; Maximum Agreement Subtree distances; the Kendall-Colijn (2016) distance <doi:10.1093/molbev/msw124>, and the Nearest Neighbour Interchange (NNI) distance, approximated per Li et al. (1996) <doi:10.1007/3-540-61332-3_168>. Includes tools for visualizing mappings of tree space (Smith 2022) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syab100>, for identifying islands of trees (Silva and Wilkinson 2021) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/syab015>, for calculating the median of sets of trees, including the transfer consensus (Takazawa et al. 2026) <doi:10.64898/2026.03.16.712085>, and for computing the information content of trees and splits.

Authors:Martin R. Smith [aut, cre, cph, prg], Roy Jonker [prg, cph], Yong Yang [ctb, cph], Yi Cao [ctb, cph], Neil Kaye [cph]