Designing fast converging phylogenetic methods

Fast and Reliable Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees with Very Short Edges∗ (Draft)

Phylogenetic reconstruction methods deal with the problem of reconstructing a tree describing the evolution of a given set of species; this is usually done using sequences of characters (e.g. DNA) extracted from these species. A central goal in the design of these methods is to be able to guarantee accurate reconstruction (with high probability) from short input sequences. Under common models o...

Fast and reliable reconstruction of phylogenetic trees with indistinguishable edges

Phylogenetic reconstruction methods attempt to reconstruct a tree describing the evolution of a given set of species using sequences of characters (e.g. DNA) extracted from these species as input. A central goal in this area is to design algorithms which guarantee reliable reconstruction of the tree from short input sequences, assuming common stochastic models of evolution. The fast converging ...

Disk-Covering, a Fast-Converging Method for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction

The evolutionary history of a set of species is represented by a phylogenetic tree, which is a rooted, leaf-labeled tree, where internal nodes represent ancestral species and the leaves represent modern day species. Accurate (or even boundedly inaccurate) topology reconstructions of large and divergent trees from realistic length sequences have long been considered one of the major challenges i...

Computational Phylogenetics An introduction to designing methods for phylogeny estimation

Scale Effects on the Discharge Coefficient of Ogee Spillway with an Arc in Plan and Converging Training Walls

Dam spillways are the structures that lead rightly and safely the outflow downstream, so that the dam integrity can be guaranteed. Many accidents with dams have been caused by an inadequate spillway design or insufficient capacity. To accurately respond the hydraulic spillways, designers use physical modeling for designing this kind of structures. The scale effect in the spillway modeling, as a...