
Название: Multiobjective Analysis and Inference of Phylogenetic Hypotheses by Means of Parallel and Bioinspired Computing
Автор: Sergio Santander Jim?nez
Издательство: Universidad de Extremadura
Год: 2015
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 271
Размер: 10,3 mb.
Язык: English
One of the most outstanding research topics in the field of bioinformatics is the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships among species. By studying the molecular features of living organisms, phylogenetic inference procedures seek to provide hypotheses about the evolutionary events which led to the current biodiversity in nature. The result of a phylogenetic analysis is given by a treeshaped data structure known as phylogenetic tree, whose topology describes the evolutionary history of the input species by defining ancestor-descendant relationships. The biological quality of the inferred phylogenies is usually evaluated by means of optimality criteria, which allow the modelling of phylogenetic inference as an optimization problem.