Continuing Investigations of COVID in the BHV Tree Space
Abstract
The worldwide phenomenon of Covid-19 wreaked havoc but
also provided plenty of data to study evolution of an RNA virus in the
wild. The phylogeny of organisms is of scientific interest, and small
phylogenetic trees can be studied on the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann tree
space. Applications of rooted and unrooted trees in T3 are explored
with SARS-Cov-2 and bat-SARS data. A new shape, the Spiky Projective
Excavated Dodecahedron (SPED), representing T4 is presented
with the suggestion of fixed faces for increased computational efficiency
in computing distances for means and variances. Finally, RNA data are
placed on the new shape for analysis..
also provided plenty of data to study evolution of an RNA virus in the
wild. The phylogeny of organisms is of scientific interest, and small
phylogenetic trees can be studied on the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann tree
space. Applications of rooted and unrooted trees in T3 are explored
with SARS-Cov-2 and bat-SARS data. A new shape, the Spiky Projective
Excavated Dodecahedron (SPED), representing T4 is presented
with the suggestion of fixed faces for increased computational efficiency
in computing distances for means and variances. Finally, RNA data are
placed on the new shape for analysis..
Keywords
RNA, Tree Spaces, Phylogenetics, Spiky Excavated Dodecahedron.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14510%2Flm-ns.v45i0.1513