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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025

Leveraging DAGs to improve context-sensitive and abundance-aware tree estimation.

Will Dumm, Duncan Ralph, William DeWitt, Ashni Vora, Tatsuya Araki, Gabriel D Victora, Frederick A Matsen Iv

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Clonal dynamics of germinal center refueling by secondary immunization.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Leveraging graphical model techniques to study evolution on phylogenetic networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  6. "A mathematical theory of evolution": phylogenetic models dating back 100 years.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  7. Leveraging DAGs to improve context-sensitive and abundance-aware tree estimation.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Will DummComputational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8617-476X
Duncan RalphComputational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2527-8610
William DeWittDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-4322, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6802-9139
Ashni VoraLaboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7842-5170
Tatsuya ArakiLaboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6203-7250
Gabriel D VictoraLaboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8807-348X
Frederick A Matsen IvComputational Biology Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109-1024, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0607-6025

Funding

Fast and flexible Bayesian phylogenetics via modern machine learningR01AI162611 · NIAID · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI MATSEN, FREDERICK ALBERT · 2021 to 2025
$3.8M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteJames S. McDonnell FoundationNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI162611NIH HHSORIP NIH HHS
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The phylogenetic inference package GCtree uses abundance of sampled sequences to improve the performance of parsimony-based inference, using a branching process model. Our previous work showed that GCtree performs competitively on B-cell receptor data, compared with other similar tools. In this article, we describe recent enhancements to GCtree, including an efficient tree storage data structure that discovers additional diversity of parsimonious trees with negligible additional computational cost. We also describe a suite of new objective functions that can be used to rank these trees, including a Poisson context likelihood function that models sequence evolution in a context-sensitive way. We validate these additions to GCtree with simulated B-cell receptor data, and benchmark performance against other phylogenetic inference tools.This article is part of the theme issue '"A mathematical theory of evolution": phylogenetic models dating back 100 years'.

Indexed as

Models, GeneticPhylogenyReceptors, Antigen, B-CellReceptors, Antigen, B-Cellaffinity maturationB-cell evolutionmaximum parsimonyphylogenetic inferencesomatic hypermutation

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PMID39976415
PMCPMC11867150

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