Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood

Maximum likelihood methods are used to estimate the phylogenetic trees for a set of species. The probabilities of DNA base substitutions are modeled by continuous-time Markov chains. We use these probabilities to estimate which DNA bases would produce the data that we observe. The topology of the tr...

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Main Author:	Cho, Anna
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Published:	Scholarship @ Claremont 2012
Subjects:	computational biology markov processes probability statistics Other Applied Mathematics
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spelling	ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-scholarship.claremont.edu-scripps_theses-10472013-06-12T03:03:26Z Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood Cho, Anna Maximum likelihood methods are used to estimate the phylogenetic trees for a set of species. The probabilities of DNA base substitutions are modeled by continuous-time Markov chains. We use these probabilities to estimate which DNA bases would produce the data that we observe. The topology of the tree is also determined using base substitution probabilities and conditional likelihoods. Felsenstein [2] introduced this method of finding an estimate for the maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree. We will explore this method in detail in this paper. 2012-04-09T07:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/46 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=scripps_theses © 2012 Anna Cho Scripps Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont computational biology markov processes probability statistics Other Applied Mathematics
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spellingShingle	computational biology markov processes probability statistics Other Applied Mathematics Cho, Anna Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood
description	Maximum likelihood methods are used to estimate the phylogenetic trees for a set of species. The probabilities of DNA base substitutions are modeled by continuous-time Markov chains. We use these probabilities to estimate which DNA bases would produce the data that we observe. The topology of the tree is also determined using base substitution probabilities and conditional likelihoods. Felsenstein [2] introduced this method of finding an estimate for the maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree. We will explore this method in detail in this paper.
author	Cho, Anna
author_facet	Cho, Anna
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title	Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood
title_short	Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood
title_full	Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood
title_fullStr	Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood
title_full_unstemmed	Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood
title_sort	constructing phylogenetic trees using maximum likelihood
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Constructing Phylogenetic Trees Using Maximum Likelihood

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