Quantifying similarity in animal vocal sequences: which metric performs best?

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

• Humpback Whale 100%
• Animal Communication 50%
• Shotgun Sequencing 50%
• Hyrax 50%
• Bottlenose Dolphin 50%
• Protein Sequencing 50%
• Tursiops truncatus 50%
• Hidden Markov Model 50%
• Stereotypy 50%

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

• Markov Chain 100%
• Megaptera novaeangliae 33%
• Tursiops truncatus 33%
• Animal Communication 33%
• Mathematical Model 33%
• Poecile carolinensis 33%
• Cetacea 33%
• Procavia 33%
• Shotgun Sequencing 33%

Earth and Planetary Sciences

• Markov Chain 100%
• Hidden Markov Models 33%