As a biologist, suppose you would like to construct a phylogeny tree on several species, what kind of "raw data" you may have? Usually, you might have DNA sequences or morphology data. As a computer scientist, these are the input to our phylogeny reconstruction algorithms, which can be represented by a matrix. For DNA sequences each row represents a species and each column stands for a particular position on the sequence, and each entry is a nucleotide. For morphology data, rows have the same meaning, columns stands for different characters and each entry stands for the state of the character
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