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cs.DS2015
Calculating the Unrooted Subtree Prune-and-Regraft Distance
Chris Whidden, Frederick A. Matsen
The subtree prune-and-regraft (SPR) distance metric is a fundamental way of comparing evolutionary trees. It has wide-ranging applications, such as to study lateral genetic transfe…
q-bio.PE2015
Tanglegrams: a reduction tool for mathematical phylogenetics
Frederick A Matsen, Sara Billey, Arnold Kas +1
Many discrete mathematics problems in phylogenetics are defined in terms of the relative labeling of pairs of leaf-labeled trees. These relative labelings are naturally formalized…
q-bio.PE2015
The shape of the one-dimensional phylogenetic likelihood function
Vu Dinh, Frederick A. Matsen
By fixing all parameters in a phylogenetic likelihood model except for one branch length, one obtains a one-dimensional likelihood function. In this work, we introduce a mathematic…