R. Berutti

A Block Decomposed QUBO Workflow for Chromosome-Y Phylogeny Reconstruction

This paper sets out a computational workflow that reconstructs the phylogeny of human Y-chromosome populations from a Variant Call Format (VCF) file of biallelic Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP). The two classical phylogenetic decisions - topology selection and root placement - are cast as Quadratic Unconstrained...