no code implementations • 9 Jun 2022 • Ruriko Yoshida, David Barnhill, Keiji Miura, Daniel Howe
In order to discover ``outlying'' gene trees which do not follow the ``main distribution(s)'' of trees, we propose to apply the ``tropical metric'' with the max-plus algebra from tropical geometry to a non-parametric estimation of gene trees over the space of phylogenetic trees.