Mathematical topics in phylogenetics

An evolutionary process is frequently modeled as a sequence of the four bases A,C,G,T, each of them changing independently following a Markov process. The main goal of this project are two: first of all, we wanted to understand and explain, from a mathematically rigorous point of view, the modeling...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Pérez De Los Cobos Hermosa, Cassius Manuel
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/103899
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/103899
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Genetics
Population dynamics
Phylogeny
Lie markov models
Dinàmica de poblacions
Genètica
Classificació AMS::92 Biology and other natural sciences::92D Genetics and population dynamics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Anàlisi matemàtica
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Sumario:An evolutionary process is frequently modeled as a sequence of the four bases A,C,G,T, each of them changing independently following a Markov process. The main goal of this project are two: first of all, we wanted to understand and explain, from a mathematically rigorous point of view, the modeling of an evolutionary process as a continuous Markov process, and why Lie Markov models are an adequate option for this task. Secondly, we explain how we tried to improve a previous implementation of Lie Markov models in IQ-TREE, an algorithm for inferring phylogenies.