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2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
An Investigation of Phylogenetic Likelihood Methods
Abstract— We analyze the performance of likelihoodbased approaches used to reconstruct phylogenetic trees. Unlike other techniques such as Neighbor-Joining (NJ) and Maximum Parsi...
Tiffani L. Williams, Bernard M. E. Moret
BIOINFORMATICS
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
adephylo: new tools for investigating the phylogenetic signal in biological traits
Summary: adephylo is a package for the R software dedicated to the analysis of comparative evolutionary data. Phylogenetic comparative methods initially aimed at accounting for or...
Thibaut Jombart, François Balloux, St&eacut...
BMCBI
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
FPGA acceleration of the phylogenetic likelihood function for Bayesian MCMC inference methods
Background: Likelihood (ML)-based phylogenetic inference has become a popular method for estimating the evolutionary relationships among species based on genomic sequence data. Th...
Stephanie Zierke, Jason D. Bakos
JBI
2006
13 years 4 months ago
Phylogenetics by likelihood: Evolutionary modeling as a tool for understanding the genome
Molecular evolutionary studies provide a means of investigating how cells function and how organisms adapt to their environment. The products of evolutionary studies provide medic...
Carolin Kosiol, Lee Bofkin, Simon Whelan
BIOINFORMATICS
2007
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Maximum likelihood of phylogenetic networks
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is believed to be ubiquitous among bacteria, and plays a major role in their genome diversification as well as their ability to develop resistance t...
Guohua Jin, Luay Nakhleh, Sagi Snir, Tamir Tuller