Despite having strong competition in ASTRAL and ASTRID, we believe DISTIQUE is a promising approach, for several reasons. Because of its speed, DISTIQUE can be used for a very fast estimation of species trees, for example, as a starting point for an extensive hill-climbing search. DISTIQUE can also generate a set of trees instead of a single tree, and we plan to study whether these sets of trees can be utilized for defining the search space of ASTRAL.