biocore / gneiss

compositional data analysis toolbox
https://biocore.github.io/gneiss/
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Faster hierarchical clustering #294

Open mortonjt opened 3 years ago

mortonjt commented 3 years ago

For datasets without a clear defined phylogeny, we need to use hierarchical clustering. The scipy implementation is quite slow, but perhaps we can speed this up with fastcluster : https://pypi.org/project/fastcluster/