2 papers
math.CO2020
Combinatorial and computational investigations of Neighbor-Joining bias
Ruth Davidson, Abraham Martin del Campo
The Neighbor-Joining algorithm is a popular distance-based phylogenetic method that computes a tree metric from a dissimilarity map arising from biological data. Realizing dissimil…
q-bio.PE2016
Modeling the distribution of distance data in Euclidean space
Ruth Davidson, Joseph Rusinko, Zoe Vernon +1
Phylogenetic inference-the derivation of a hypothesis for the common evolutionary history of a group of species- is an active area of research at the intersection of biology, compu…