3 papers
q-bio.QM2017
Inferences on the acquisition of multidrug resistance in \emph{Mycobacterium tuberculosis} using molecular epidemiological data
Guilherme S. Rodrigues, Andrew R. Francis, Scott A. Sisson +1
We investigate the rates of drug resistance acquisition in a natural population using molecular epidemiological data from Bolivia. First, we study the rate of direct acquisition of…
q-bio.PE2016
Maximum likelihood estimates of pairwise rearrangement distances
Stuart Serdoz, Attila Egri-Nagy, Jeremy Sumner +4
Accurate estimation of evolutionary distances between taxa is important for many phylogenetic reconstruction methods. In the case of bacteria, distances can be estimated using a ra…
math.GR2014
Group-theoretic models of the inversion process in bacterial genomes
Attila Egri-Nagy, Volker Gebhardt, Mark M. Tanaka +1
The variation in genome arrangements among bacterial taxa is largely due to the process of inversion. Recent studies indicate that not all inversions are equally probable, suggesti…