Seong-Hwan Jun1, Hassan Nasif2, Chris Jennings-Shaffer3

  • 1Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA.

概括

贝叶斯系遗传学的新算法将Felsenstein修剪算法概括为更快的树推断. 这种方法快速估计了家族遗传学分支的长度,为计算生物学中的变异推理提供了一个有前途的方法.

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