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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Algebra and Phylogenetic Trees

Hansen, Michael 01 May 2007 (has links)
One of the restrictions used in all of the works done on phylogenetic invariants for group based models has been that the group be abelian. In my thesis, I aim to generalize the method of invariants for group-based models of DNA sequence evolution to include nonabelian groups. By using a nonabelian group to act one the nucleotides, one could capture the structure of the symmetric model for DNA sequence evolution. If successful, this line of research would unify the two separated strands of active research in the area today: Allman and Rhodes’s invariants for the symmetric model and Strumfels and Sullivant’s toric ideals of phylogenetic invariants. Furthermore, I want to look at the statistical properties of polynomial invariants to get a better understanding of how they behave when used with real, “noisy” data.

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