Publications by authors named "Gerard Ribas"
Comparison of Orchard Networks Using Their Extended μ-Representation.
IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform
June 2024
Article Synopsis
- Phylogenetic networks are a more complex way to model evolutionary relationships that can include reticulation events, unlike traditional phylogenetic trees.
- The article presents an extended μ-representation for these networks which calculates paths not only to leaves but also to reticulations, enabling better classification of a specific type called orchard networks.
- Orchard networks are significant in biology as they represent coexisting organisms and pose a mathematically interesting challenge, balancing between complexity and the generalizability of their representation.
Phylogenetic networks are an extension of phylogenetic trees that allow for the representation of reticulate evolution events. One of the classes of networks that has gained the attention of the scientific community over the last years is the class of orchard networks, that generalizes tree-child networks, one of the most studied classes of networks. In this paper we focus on the combinatorial and algorithmic problem of the generation of binary orchard networks, and also of binary tree-child networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF