Improvement of Fitch function for Maximum Parsimony in Phylogenetic Reconstructi

Technical Report Improvement of Fitch functionfor Maximum Parsimony in Phylogenetic Reconstructionwith Intel AVX2 assembler instructionsResearch Lab: LERIA TR20130624-1Version 1.0 24 June 2013JEAN-M ICHEL RICHER Office: H206 Address: 2 Boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers Cedex 01 Phone: (+33) (0)2-41-73-52-34 Email: jean-michel.richer@univ-angers.frAbstractThe Maximum Parsimony problem aims at reconstructing a phylogenetic tree from DNA, RNA or protein sequences while minimizing the number of evol