Based on two DIMACS working group meetings on ''Bioconsensus'', this text provides an introduction and reference to the various aspects of this rapidly developing field. The meetings brought together mathematical and biological scientists to discuss the uses in the biological sciences of methods of consensus and social choice.
Consensus methods developed in the context of voting, decision making, and other areas of the social and behavioral sciences have a variety of applications in the biological sciences, originally in taxonomy and evolutionary biology, and more recently in m
The Arrovian program from weak orders to hierarchical and tree-like relations; Consensus $n$-trees, weak independence, and veto power; The size of a maximum agreement subtree for random binary trees; An injective set representation of closed systems of se
Consensus methods developed in the context of voting, decision making, and other areas of the social and behavioral sciences have a variety of applications in the biological sciences, originally in taxonomy and evolutionary biology, and more recently in m
The Arrovian program from weak orders to hierarchical and tree-like relations; Consensus $n$-trees, weak independence, and veto power; The size of a maximum agreement subtree for random binary trees; An injective set representation of closed systems of se