Summary: Phylogenetics and Algebraic Geometry:
Problems from Biology
Elizabeth S. Allman
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Southern Maine
John A. Rhodes
Department of Mathematics
Bates College
Porto Conte, Alghero, Sardegna, May 28, 2005
Problem:
Given aligned biological sequences, presumed to have arisen from a
common ancestral sequence, infer their evolutionary history.
a: AATCGCTGCTCGACC...
b: AAATGCTACTGGACC...
c: AAACGTTACTGGAGC...
d: AATCGTGGCTCGATC...
a
b
c
d

Source: Allman, Elizabeth S. - Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Collections: Mathematics