Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Modern Biology

Chapter 10

Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction: Geometric Approaches

David Haws^*, Terrell L. Hodge^† and Ruriko Yoshida^‡, ^*IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, ^†Department of Mathematics and College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, ^‡Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, [e-mail]

10.1 Introduction

In this section, we give a brief, high-level overview that encompasses the main topics to be covered in this chapter, and the relationships between them. As will be seen, phylogenetic tree reconstruction is a multi-layered process, and covering all aspects of it would take far more than a single chapter. In the next section, we begin in earnest ...