Basic Phylogenetic Combinatorics

Andreas Dress
Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany dress@Mathematik.Uni-Bielefeld.DE

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In the lecture, various useful and amazingly distinct ways of encoding a “Phylogenetic X-Tree" by metrics, “splits", or “quartets", their specific uses in tree reconstruction, their mutual (combinatorial) relationship as well as important ramifications of these relationships will be discussed.