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Activity Number: 594
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #316487
Title: Likelihood Estimation of Large Species Trees Using the Coalescent Process
Author(s): Arindam RoyChoudhury*
Companies: Columbia University
Keywords: phylogenetics ; coalescent ; genomics ; big data ; genetics ; tree
Abstract:

A species tree is a weighted tree-graph that represents the order and the magnitude of separation between a given set of species. Statistical estimation of trees is an integral part of studying species trees. Although various likelihood and Bayesian estimators of species trees are available, none of these methods are fast enough to estimate very large species trees under a certain commonly used model (the coalescent). This problem is especially relevant today because there has been a recent influx of large amount of genomic data. Here I will present an approach of fast likelihood estimation of species trees, exploiting a certain special structure of the tree space. Using this approach, one will be able to estimate larger species trees than previously possible in a reasonable time.


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