com.hfg.bio.phylogeny

Class UPGMA

java.lang.Object

com.hfg.bio.phylogeny.UPGMA

All Implemented Interfaces:

TreeMethod

public class UPGMA
extends Object
implements TreeMethod

UPGMA (unweighted pair-group method using arithmetic averages) method of phylogenetic tree construction.

See wikipedia. Note that distances in the resulting tree will not exactly match those from the input distance matrix.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
UPGMA()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PhylogeneticTree	constructTree(DistanceMatrix inDistanceMatrix)
boolean	equals(Object inObj2)
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

UPGMA

public UPGMA()

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

equals

public boolean equals(Object inObj2)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

constructTree

public PhylogeneticTree constructTree(DistanceMatrix inDistanceMatrix)

Specified by:

constructTree in interface TreeMethod