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Phylogenetic networks are necessary to represent the tree of life expanded by edges to represent events such as horizontal gene transfers, hybridizations or gene flow. Not all species follow the paradigm of vertical inheritance of their…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-15 Claudia Solís-Lemus , Cécile Ané

Phylogenetic networks are generalizations of phylogenetic trees that allow the representation of reticulation events such as horizontal gene transfer or hybridization, and can also represent uncertainty in inference. A subclass of these,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-15 Mareike Fischer , Andrew Francis

The inference of phylogenetic networks, which model complex evolutionary processes including hybridization and gene flow, remains a central challenge in evolutionary biology. Until now, statistically consistent inference methods have been…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Niels Holtgrefe , Elizabeth S. Allman , Hector Baños , Leo van Iersel , Vincent Moulton , John A. Rhodes , Kristina Wicke

Structural information of phylogenetic tree topologies plays an important role in phylogenetic inference. However, finding appropriate topological structures for specific phylogenetic inference tasks often requires significant design effort…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-20 Cheng Zhang

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that are used in biology to represent reticulate or non-treelike evolution. Recently, several algorithms have been developed which aim to construct phylogenetic networks from…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-10-05 K. T. Huber , V. Moulton

Phylogenetics, the inference of evolutionary trees from molecular sequence data such as DNA, is an enterprise that yields valuable evolutionary understanding of many biological systems. Bayesian phylogenetic algorithms, which approximate a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-27 Vu Dinh , Aaron E. Darling , Frederick A. Matsen

Phylogenetic networks provide a means of describing the evolutionary history of sets of species believed to have undergone hybridization or gene flow during their evolution. The mutation process for a set of such species can be modeled as a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-23 Travis Barton , Elizabeth Gross , Colby Long , Joseph Rusinko

Phylogenetic networks are an extension of phylogenetic trees which are used to represent evolutionary histories in which reticulation events (such as recombination and hybridization) have occurred. A central question for such networks is…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-28 Andrew Francis , Vincent Moulton

Combining a set of phylogenetic trees into a single phylogenetic network that explains all of them is a fundamental challenge in evolutionary studies. Existing methods are computationally expensive and can either handle only small numbers…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-07 Giulia Bernardini , Leo van Iersel , Esther Julien , Leen Stougie

A phylogeny describes the evolutionary history of an evolving population. Evolutionary search algorithms can perfectly track the ancestry of candidate solutions, illuminating a population's trajectory through the search space. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Alexander Lalejini , Marcos Sanson , Jack Garbus , Matthew Andres Moreno , Emily Dolson

Phylogenetic trees are widely used to display estimates of how groups of species evolved. Each phylogenetic tree can be seen as a collection of clusters, subgroups of the species that evolved from a common ancestor. When phylogenetic trees…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-10-19 Leo van Iersel , Steven Kelk , Regula Rupp , Daniel Huson

Tackling the most pressing problems for humanity, such as the climate crisis and the threat of global pandemics, requires accelerating the pace of scientific discovery. While science has traditionally relied on trial and error and even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Moksh Jain , Tristan Deleu , Jason Hartford , Cheng-Hao Liu , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , Yoshua Bengio

Phylogenomics is a new field which applies to tools in phylogenetics to genome data. Due to a new technology and increasing amount of data, we face new challenges to analyze them over a space of phylogenetic trees. Because a space of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Ruriko Yoshida

Generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a family of algorithms that learn a generative policy to sample discrete objects $x$ with non-negative reward $R(x)$. Learning objectives guarantee the GFlowNet samples $x$ from the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Max W. Shen , Emmanuel Bengio , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Andreas Loukas , Kyunghyun Cho , Tommaso Biancalani

A phylogenetic tree is an important way in Bioinformatics to find the evolutionary relationship among biological species. In this research, a proposed model is described for the estimation of a phylogenetic tree for a given set of data. To…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-03 S M Rafiuddin

Reconciling a gene tree with a species tree is an important task that reveals much about the evolution of genes, genomes, and species, as well as about the molecular function of genes. A wide array of computational tools have been devised…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-12-11 Yun Yu , Luay Nakhleh

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets), a new family of probabilistic samplers, have recently emerged as a promising framework for learning stochastic policies that generate high-quality and diverse objects proportionally to their rewards.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chunhui Li , Cheng-Hao Liu , Dianbo Liu , Qingpeng Cai , Ling Pan

The recently proposed generative flow networks (GFlowNets) are a method of training a policy to sample compositional discrete objects with probabilities proportional to a given reward via a sequence of actions. GFlowNets exploit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Daniil Tiapkin , Nikita Morozov , Alexey Naumov , Dmitry Vetrov

In evolutionary studies it is common to use phylogenetic trees to represent the evolutionary history of a set of species. However, in case the transfer of genes or other genetic information between the species or their ancestors has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Katharina T. Huber , Vincent Moulton , Guillaume E. Scholz

Phylogenetic networks are a generalization of evolutionary trees that are used by biologists to represent the evolution of organisms which have undergone reticulate evolution. Essentially, a phylogenetic network is a directed acyclic graph…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-01 Leo van Iersel , Vincent Moulton , Eveline de Swart , Taoyang Wu