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Spaces of ranked tree-child networks

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This research uncovers new distance measures for ranked tree-child networks, suggesting improvements for phylogenetic analysis.

The study defines two new spaces of ranked binary tree-child networks, enhancing methods for phylogenetic comparison.
It introduces a new encoding technique based on partially ordered sets, furthering understanding of phylogenetic network structures.
The continuous space developed captures all equidistant tree-child networks, generalizing ultrametric trees.
The approach ensures efficient computation of distances between equidistant tree-child networks, which is critical in phylogenetic studies.

Moulton et al. (2025) studied this question.

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