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    • Evolutionary biology
    • Computational phylogenetics
    • Bioinformatics

    Background:

    • Phylogenomic analyses require comparing evolutionary trees, but methods often focus on topology, neglecting branch lengths.
    • Comparing branch lengths is challenging due to varying evolutionary rates and units across genes and species.
    • Existing tools for comparing and combining weighted trees are limited, hindering downstream applications.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a computational method for matching evolutionary trees based on branch lengths.
    • To introduce Topology-Constrained Metric Matching (TCMM) for transforming query tree branch lengths using a reference tree.
    • To enhance phylogenomic analyses by accurately incorporating branch length information.

    Main Methods:

    • Defined Topology-Constrained Metric Matching (TCMM) problems to adjust branch lengths.
    • Utilized a linear algebraic formulation with dynamic programming for efficient TCMM problem solving.
    • Implemented TCMM to solve computational problems in quadratic time and memory.

    Main Results:

    • TCMM problems can be solved efficiently using the proposed linear algebraic and dynamic programming approach.
    • Demonstrated TCMM's utility in embedding gene tree leaves in Euclidean space to identify potential errors.
    • Showcased TCMM's effectiveness in summarizing gene tree branch lengths onto the species tree.

    Conclusions:

    • TCMM provides a novel framework for comparing and matching evolutionary trees using branch lengths.
    • The method enhances the accuracy of phylogenomic analyses with limited computational cost.
    • TCMM offers a valuable tool for addressing discordance in evolutionary relationships across the genome.