Application
of Neural Networks to Phylogenetics - SOTA
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oIn 1997 Dopazo J. and J. M. Carazo published a paper in the Journal of Molecular Evolution describing a neural network approach to phylogeny reconstruction they called SOTA.
oSOTA employs
a Self Organizing Network (SOM) to reconstruct
phylogenies.
oSOMs use some of the same concepts as competitive
neural networks.