Tool for computing all solutions to the small parsimony problem
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While there are tools such as PHYLIP and Bio++ for solving the small parsimony problem: finding a parsimonious assignment of states of qualitative characters to the internal nodes of a phylogenetic tree, given states of such characters at the leaves of a tree and a cost matrix which dictates the cost of transitioning from one state to another in the tree, is there a tool which computes and outputs _all_ such parsimonious assignments?

This would essentially involve Sankoff's dynamic programming algorithm, building the structure in the upward phase, e.g., as seen in Figure 2 of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677398/ , but then in the downward phase, instead of finding one spanning tree, it outputs _all_ spanning trees: the resulting parsimonious assignments

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There can be (often are) exponentially many solutions. Why would want to enumerate them all?

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