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Collaborative Research: A mathematical framework for scalable species tree estimation via — NSF Award to University of Wisconsin-M

High-quality genome data are being produced at a pace that is changing evolutionary biology. These data can clarify how species are related, but they also bring a hard problem: evolution is not uniform across the genome. This project develops new mathematics and algorithms for estimating species histories from whole-ge

Award titleCollaborative Research: A mathematical framework for scalable species tree estimation via
Award ID2601545
AwardeeUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
CityMADISON
StateWI
Amount obligated$327,547
Principal investigatorSebastien Roch
ProgramMATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY
Start date09/01/2026
AbstractHigh-quality genome data are being produced at a pace that is changing evolutionary biology. These data can clarify how species are related, but they also bring a hard problem: evolution is not uniform across the genome. This project develops new mathematics and algorithms for estimating species histories from whole-genome data while allowing a separate history for each region. The approach builds on a recently proposed, fast, and accurate method that uses simple scores computed from patterns in
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