Figure 3From: A support vector machine based test for incongruence between sets of trees in tree spaceA flowchart describing how our statistical test calculates the separation percentage of the evolutionary histories of two sets of DNA sequence alignments, A and B. First, gene trees, labeled “training set”, are inferred from alignments A and B. The training set gene trees are vectorized and an SVM is trained to find a hyperplane separating the vectorized gene trees. Next, a new set of gene trees, labeled “testing set”, are inferred from alignments A and B. The testing set gene trees are vectorized and the hyperplane previously computed by the SVM is used to calculate a separation percentage.Back to article page