#55 Phylogenetics and the likelihood gradient with Xiang Ji

the bioinformatics chat by Roman Cheplyaka

Jan 13, 202100:57:02Science & Medicine

In this episode, we chat about phylogenetics with Xiang Ji . We start with a general introduction to the field and then go deeper into the likelihood-based methods (maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference). In particul...

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