Summary: Phylogenetic Models:
Algebra and Evolution
Elizabeth S. Allman
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Alaska Fairbanks
TM
Applications in biology, dynamics, and statistics
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications ­ Minneapolis, MN
March 6, 2007
Outline:
1. the inference problem
DNA sequences evolutionary tree
2. sequence evolution
probabilistic models on trees
3. phylogenetic ideals and varieties
models algebraic varieties
4. application
identifiability of models
Inference Problem:
Given aligned biological sequences, presumed to have arisen from a

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

Collections: Mathematics