  Phylogenetic networks represent evolutionary history of species and can
record natural reticulate evolutionary processes such as horizontal gene
transfer and gene recombination. This makes phylogenetic networks a more
comprehensive representation of evolutionary history compared to phylogenetic
trees. Stochastic processes for generating random trees or networks are
important tools in evolutionary analysis, especially in phylogeny
reconstruction where they can be utilized for validation or serve as priors for
Bayesian methods. However, as more network generators are developed, there is a
lack of discussion or comparison for different generators. To bridge this gap,
we compare a set of phylogenetic network generators by profiling topological
summary statistics of the generated networks over the number of reticulations
and comparing the topological profiles.
