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license: GPL-2.0-or-later
title: 'Quartet: Comparison of Phylogenetic Trees Using Quartet and Split Measures'
version: 1.3.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2536318
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Quartet
- type: url
  value: https://github.com/ms609/Quartet/
abstract: 'Calculates the number of four-taxon subtrees consistent with a pair of
  cladograms, calculating the symmetric quartet distance of Bandelt & Dress (1986),
  Reconstructing the shape of a tree from observed dissimilarity data, Advances in
  Applied Mathematics, 7, 309-343 <https://doi.org/10.1016/0196-8858(86)90038-2>,
  and using the tqDist algorithm of Sand et al. (2014), tqDist: a library for computing
  the quartet and triplet distances between binary or general trees, Bioinformatics,
  30, 2079–2080 <https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btu157> for pairs of binary
  trees.'
authors:
- family-names: Smith
  given-names: Martin R.
  email: martin.smith@durham.ac.uk
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-1727
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'Quartet: comparison of phylogenetic trees using quartet and split measures'
  authors:
  - family-names: Smith
    given-names: Martin R.
    email: martin.smith@durham.ac.uk
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-1727
  notes: R package version 1.3.0
  year: '2019'
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2536318
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ms609/Quartet/issues/
commit: 559ceb2b4c1df280a334938ef4877ce43f018ee0
url: https://ms609.github.io/Quartet/
date-released: '2026-03-19'
contact:
- family-names: Smith
  given-names: Martin R.
  email: martin.smith@durham.ac.uk
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-1727
references:
- type: article
  title: 'tqDist: a library for computing the quartet and triplet distances between
    binary or general trees'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sand
    given-names: Andreas
  - family-names: Holt
    given-names: Morten K.
  - family-names: Johansen
    given-names: Jens
  - family-names: Brodal
    given-names: Gerth S.
  - family-names: Mailund
    given-names: Thomas
  - family-names: Pedersen
    given-names: Christian N. S.
  doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu157
  journal: Bioinformatics
  issue: '14'
  volume: '30'
  year: '2014'
  start: '2079'
  end: '2080'
- type: article
  title: Bayesian and parsimony approaches reconstruct informative trees from simulated
    morphological datasets
  authors:
  - family-names: Smith
    given-names: Martin R.
    email: martin.smith@durham.ac.uk
  doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0632
  journal: Biology Letters
  volume: '15'
  issue: '2'
  year: '2019'
  start: '20180632'