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A representation-theoretic approach to the calculation of evolutionary distance in bacteria
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Sumner, JG 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9820-0235, Jarvis, PD ORCID: 0000-0002-5330-6789 and Francis, AR 2017
, 'A representation-theoretic approach to the calculation of evolutionary distance in bacteria'
, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 50
, pp. 1-14
, doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aa7d60.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9820-0235, Jarvis, PD ORCID: 0000-0002-5330-6789 and Francis, AR 2017
, 'A representation-theoretic approach to the calculation of evolutionary distance in bacteria'
, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 50
, pp. 1-14
, doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aa7d60.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aa7d60
Abstract
In the context of bacteria and models of their evolution under genome rearrangement, we explore a novel application of group representation theory to the inference of evolutionary history. Our contribution is to show, in a very general maximum likelihood setting, how to use elementary matrix algebra to sidestep intractable combinatorial computations and convert the problem into one of eigenvalue estimation amenable to standard numerical approximation techniques.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Authors/Creators: | Sumner, JG and Jarvis, PD and Francis, AR |
| Keywords: | representation theory, bacteria, evolution, phylogenetics, group theory, genome rearrangement, maximum likelihood |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical |
| Publisher: | Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1751-8121 |
| DOI / ID Number: | 10.1088/1751-8121/aa7d60 |
| Copyright Information: | © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd |
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