Parallel Divide-and-Conquer Phylogeny Reconstruction by Maximum Likelihood

Phylogenetic trees are important in biology since their ap- plications range from determining protein function to understanding the evolution of species. Maximum Likelihood (ML) is a popular optimiza- tion criterion in phylogenetics. However, inference of phylogenies with ML is NP-hard. Recursive-Iterative-DCM3 (Rec-I-DCM3) is a divide- and-conquer framework that divides a dataset into smaller subsets (sub- problems), applies an external base