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ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2018

A Surrogate Function for One-Dimensional Phylogenetic Likelihoods.

Brian C Claywell, Vu Dinh, Mathieu Fourment, Connor O McCoy, Frederick A Matsen Iv

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Article in Molecular biology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Brian C ClaywellProgram in Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
Vu DinhDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Mathieu Fourmentithree Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia.
Connor O McCoyProgram in Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.
Frederick A Matsen IvProgram in Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA.

Funding

Understanding Transmission with Integrated Genetic and Epidemiologic InferenceU54GM111274 · NIGMS · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI VESPIGNANI, ALESSANDRO · 2014 to 2018
$12.5M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM111274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phylogenetics has seen a steady increase in data set size and substitution model complexity, which require increasing amounts of computational power to compute likelihoods. This motivates strategies to approximate the likelihood functions for branch length optimization and Bayesian sampling. In this article, we develop an approximation to the 1D likelihood function as parametrized by a single branch length. Our method uses a four-parameter surrogate function abstracted from the simplest phylogenetic likelihood function, the binary symmetric model. We show that it offers a surrogate that can be fit over a variety of branch lengths, that it is applicable to a wide variety of models and trees, and that it can be used effectively as a proposal mechanism for Bayesian sampling. The method is implemented as a stand-alone open-source C library for calling from phylogenetics algorithms; it has proven essential for good performance of our online phylogenetic algorithm sts.

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Likelihood FunctionsPhylogenyAlgorithmsBayes TheoremEvolution, MolecularMarkov ChainsModels, GeneticMonte Carlo MethodSequence Analysis, DNABayesian phylogeneticsphylogenetic likelihoodproposal distributionsurrogate function

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PMID29029199
PMCPMC5850616

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