EDIT: these functions have been pushed to GitHub
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
lat/long/alt
I've implemented a function to assign lat/long/alt coordinates to nodes of binary trees. These are trees where each node has exactly two children. This same function can be used for 'lazy' node coordinate assignment. The basic idea is given the height of the tree, altitudes are assigned to each node using altitude = a + ((n-1)*b) from from Janies et al. 2007. Check out the paper or the project site for more info on that algorithm. To assign latitude and longitude the function simply takes the midpoint of the two children. This is exactly how the 'lazy' node assigning function works. Neither of these functions take branch length into consideration.
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