Unifying phylogenetic traversal and deep learning to guide tree exploration
Lena Collienne, David Harry Richman, David H Rich, Mary Barker, Chris Jennings-Shaffer, Frederick A. Matsen IV
The paper presents a deep learning approach that uses phylogenetic dynamic program outputs to predict edges in maximum parsimony trees, achieving high accuracy on simulated and empirical datasets.
Systematic Biology · Aug 17, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics