English

Bridging trees for posterior inference on Ancestral Recombination Graphs

Computation 2019-03-06 v1 Populations and Evolution

Abstract

We present a new Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, implemented in software Arbores, for inferring the history of a sample of DNA sequences. Our principal innovation is a bridging procedure, previously applied only for simple stochastic processes, in which the local computations within a bridge can proceed independently of the rest of the DNA sequence, facilitating large-scale parallelisation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1812.01345,
  title  = {Bridging trees for posterior inference on Ancestral Recombination Graphs},
  author = {Kari Heine and Alex Beskos and Ajay Jasra and David Balding and Maria De Iorio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01345},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

23 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society A

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