OCTAL: Optimal Completion of gene trees in polynomial time

Table 2 The number of gene trees for which OCTAL provided an improvement over ASTRAL-II, for which ASTRAL-II provided an improvement of OCTAL, and for which there was no difference between the two methods is provided below for two levels of ILS and four numbers of genes

Number of genes	OCTAL better	ASTRAL-II better	No difference
Moderate ILS (AD = 10%)
25 genes	177	62	161
50 genes	420	116	262
100 genes	685	188	627
200 genes	1366	363	1271
High ILS (AD = 35%)
25 genes	228	79	93
50 genes	398	119	283
100 genes	624	265	611
200 genes	1004	524	1472

The RF error rate is used for evaluating the distance between the completed, estimated trees and the true gene trees. Numbers in italic indicate the largest number of genes. OCTAL improves more genes than ASTRAL-II except when the level of ILS is high and the number of genes is 200, in which case OCTAL and ASTRAL-II are more often equal in their performance

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