Robustness of supertree methods for reconciling dense incompatible data. SJ. Willson

The document discusses methods for constructing a supertree from a collection of input phylogenetic trees on overlapping sets of taxa. A supertree is a single tree that combines all the taxa and agrees with each input tree when restricted to that tree's taxa. The document focuses on measuring the "radius" of supertree methods, which indicates their robustness to small changes in the input data. It describes using the normalized triplet support from the input trees as edge weights in the supertree construction process. The normalized triplet supertree is the tree produced when this weight scheme and a minimum threshold approach are used.