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Table 3 Percents of alignments for which different search strategies reach a maximum tree score

From: PQ, a new program for phylogeny reconstruction

Dataset

1SA

10SA

100SA

NNI HC

NNI MC

SPR

Metazoa-10

61.4%

99.3%

99.9%

99.5%

100%

99.8%

Metazoa-15

42.3%

92.2%

99.8%

97.7%

99.4%

99.1%

Fungi-15

41.6%

91.9%

99.7%

98.7%

99.7%

99.4%

Proteobacteria-15

25.5%

73.5%

97.2%

93.5%

98.2%

97.1%

Metazoa-25

22.6%

72.0%

96.6%

92.4%

95.1%

98.9%

Fungi-30

8.7%

42.3%

87.1%

85.8%

92.0%

97.8%

Proteobacteria-30

1.4%

11.4%

41.0%

57.3%

70.9%

93.4%

Fungi-45

1.6%

13.3%

48.0%

62.8%

75.1%

96.1%

Proteobacteria-45

0.0%

0.4%

4.4%

27.4%

37.2%

88.5%

  1. 1SA, 10SA and 100SA are for single, 10 times and 100 times repeated stepwise addition, respectively; NNI HC is for NNI hill climbing, NNI MC is for NNI Monte Carlo search