Bailin Hao
Paper #: 10-01-001
The recently proposed composition vector (CVTree) approach to prokaryotic phylogeny is whole genome based, alignment-free and parameter-free. It supports the 16S rRNA analysis in many major and fine clusterings in Archaea and Bacteria branches of the Tree of Life and provides additional information and independent verification to the latter. It may become a practical and definitive tool in prokaryotic phylogeny and taxonomy.