Chemotypic diversity of epichloae, fungal symbionts of grasses

CL Schardl, CA Young, JR Faulkner, S Florea, J Pan - fungal ecology, 2012 - Elsevier
The epichloid fungi–comprising sexual Epichloë species and asexual Neotyphodium
species–are symbionts of cool-season grasses (subfamily Poöideae), mostly vertically …

[HTML][HTML] Polyhedral computational geometry for averaging metric phylogenetic trees

E Miller, M Owen, JS Provan - Advances in Applied Mathematics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the computational geometry relevant to calculations of the Fréchet
mean and variance for probability distributions on the phylogenetic tree space of Billera …

Information geometry for phylogenetic trees

MK Garba, TMW Nye, J Lueg… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2021 - Springer
We propose a new space of phylogenetic trees which we call wald space. The motivation is
to develop a space suitable for statistical analysis of phylogenies, but with a geometry based …

A comparative multivariate analysis of nitrilase enzymes: An ensemble based computational approach

P Kumari, R Poddar - Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Nitrilases, member of nitrilase superfamily catalyse the hydrolysis of different nitriles to
corresponding amides and acids. In this article, we demonstrate two-fold computational …

Bioinformatic identification of monkeypox virus phylogenetic gene trees that are representative of its whole-genome phylogenetic tree

EMI Akpan, D Diaz-Cánova, MI Okeke - Virus Genes, 2024 - Springer
Phylogenetic analysis based on whole-genome sequences is the gold standard for
monkeypox virus (MPXV) phylogeny. However, genomic epidemiology capability and …

EVOLVE: A Web Platform for Evolutionary Phase Analysis and New Variant Exploration from Multi-Sequence Data

S Sangeet, A Sinha, MB Nair, A Mahata, R Sarkar… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Recurrent updates from the World Health Organization (WHO) on refining definitions for
Variants of Concern (VOCs), Variants of Interest (VOIs), and Variants Under Monitoring …

A support vector machine based test for incongruence between sets of trees in tree space

DC Haws, P Huggins, EM O'Neill, DW Weisrock… - BMC …, 2012 - Springer
Background The increased use of multi-locus data sets for phylogenetic reconstruction has
increased the need to determine whether a set of gene trees significantly deviate from the …

DASACT: A decision aiding software for axiomatic consensus theory

F Domenach, A Tayari - Mathematical Biosciences, 2016 - Elsevier
There have been various attempts, solutions, and approaches towards constructing an
appropriate consensus tree based on a given set of phylogenetic trees. However, for …

Fast algorithms for computing path-difference distances

BF Wang, CY Li - IEEE/ACM transactions on computational …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tree comparison metrics are an important tool for the study of phylogenetic trees. Path-
difference distances measure the dissimilarity between two phylogenetic trees (on the same …

Distributions of topological tree metrics between a species tree and a gene tree

J Xi, J Xie, R Yoshida - Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2017 - Springer
In order to conduct a statistical analysis on a given set of phylogenetic gene trees, we often
use a distance measure between two trees. In a statistical distance-based method to …