Binary Steiner trees are very important in biological and evolutionary questions. According to current theories of evolution, all species share a common history and are linked by common ancestors. These ancestral relationships can be represented by evolutionary trees such as tree alignments or phylogenetic trees. The problem of constructing such trees can be modeled as a binary Steiner tree problem. We study binary Steiner trees and their extension to general degree-constrained Steiner trees.
Susanne Pape
Binary Steiner trees Phylogeny evolutionary trees