Compact Set Neighboring Relation and Its Application in the Evaluating the Evolution Tree

Abstract

For evaluating the quality of a evolution tree reconstructed by computer, the neighboring relations consist with original distances are very important. However, the neighboring relations are not equally important. In this paper, from a relative point of view, we propose an estimating criterion that neighboring relations with respect to compact sets, those neighboring relations are more important. We estimate the evolution tree with considering whether those relations are consist or not. In the last part of the paper, we estimate some famous programs of constructing evolution tree with using the criterion on real data.