Julia for phylogenetic inference

Music City Center 

In this talk, we will discuss the inference challenges in the
field of phylogenetics whose overall goal is to reconstruct the Tree of Life,
the graphical representation of the evolutionary process from the origin of
life to the diversity we see nowadays. This tree is estimated from genomic
sequences, and the inference procedure is computationally intensive in terms of
unstable numerical optimization and inefficient heuristic traversal of tree
space. We will highlight recent advances in phylogenetic inference via our new
organization JuliaPhylo which encompasses several Julia packages aimed at the
evolutionary biology community.

phylogenetics

networks

evolution

trees

networks