Zhaoxing Wu
Zhaoxing Wu just completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she worked with Prof. Claudia Solis-Lemus and major in statistics and mathematics. Her research interest broadly lies in Phylogenetics and network analysis.
Session
07-26
14:00
10min
Learning Hybridization Networks Using Phylogenetic Invariants
Zhaoxing Wu
Phylogenetic networks represent the evolutionary process of reticulate organisms by the explicit modeling of gene flow. While most existing network methods are not scalable to tackle big data, we introduce a novel method to reconstruct phylogenetic networks based on algebraic invariants without the heuristic search of network space. Our methodology is available in the Julia package phylo-diamond.jl, and it is at least 10 times faster than the fastest-to-date network methods.
Biology and Medicine
32-124