Verbalizing phylogenomic conflict: Representation of node congruence across competing reconstructions of the neoavian explosion.

ABSTRACT: Phylogenomic research is accelerating the publication of landmark studies that aim to resolve deep divergences of major organismal groups. Meanwhile, systems for identifying and integrating the products of phylogenomic inference-such as newly supported clade concepts-have not kept pace. However, the ability to verbalize node concept congruence and conflict across multiple, in effect simultaneously endorsed phylogenomic hypotheses, is a prerequisite for building synthetic data environments for biological systematics and other domains impacted by these conflicting inferences. Here we develop a novel solution to the conflict verbalization challenge, based on a logic representation and reasoning approach that utilizes the language of Region Connection Calculus (RCC-5) to produce consistent ali

SUBMITTER: Franz NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6395011 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature