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Distance-based Species Tree Estimation: Information-Theoretic Trade-off between Number of Loci and Sequence Length under the Coalescent

Authors Elchanan Mossel, Sebastien Roch

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  • phylogenetic reconstruction
  • multispecies coalescent
  • sequence length requirement.

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Abstract

We consider the reconstruction of a phylogeny from multiple genes under the multispecies coalescent. We establish a connection with the sparse signal detection problem, where one seeks to distinguish between a distribution and a mixture of the distribution and a sparse signal. Using this connection, we derive an information-theoretic trade-off between the number of genes needed for an accurate reconstruction and the sequence length of the genes.

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Elchanan Mossel and Sebastien Roch. Distance-based Species Tree Estimation: Information-Theoretic Trade-off between Number of Loci and Sequence Length under the Coalescent. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 40, pp. 931-942, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.931

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Elchanan Mossel
Sebastien Roch

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