CD-MAWS: An Alignment-Free Phylogeny Estimation Method Using Cosine Distance on Minimal Absent Word Sets.

Multiple sequence alignment has been the traditional and well established approach of sequence analysis and comparison, though it is time and memory consuming. As the scale of sequencing data is increasing day by day, the importance of faster yet accurate alignment-free methods is on the rise. Several alignment-free sequence analysis methods have been established in the literature in recent years, which extract numerical features from genomic data to analyze sequences and also to estimate phylogenetic relationship among genes and species.