Granular Forum — Dr Matthew MacAulay
Civil Engineering Conference Room Room 438, Civil Engineering Building, J05, The University of Sydney, NSW, AustraliaHyperbolic tree embeddings for Bayesian inference of evolutionary trees. Viruses, like COVID-19, evolve over time as mutations in the DNA sequence constantly produce different lineages on the tree of evolution. Finding this evolutionary tree allows scientists to better understand the similarity of strains, regional outbreaks, and aids in developing vaccines. Unfortunately, there are a super-exponential ...