title: Phylogenetic estimation with partial likelihood tensors.
abstract: We present an alternative method for calculating likelihoods in molecular phylogenetics. Our method is based on partial likelihood tensors, which are generalizations of partial likelihood vectors, as used in Felsenstein's approach. Exploiting a lexicographic sorting and partial likelihood tensors, it is possible to obtain significant computational savings. We show this on a range of simulated data by enumerating all numerical calculations that are required by our method and the standard approach.
authors.affiliation: School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. jsumner@utas.edu.au
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Sumner
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Charleston
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D010802:Phylogeny