There are very few instances in which positive Darwinian selection has been convincingly demonstrated at the molecular level. In this study, we present a novel test for detecting p...
Tal Pupko, Roded Sharan, Masami Hasegawa, Ron Sham...
Driven by novel biological wet lab techniques such as pyrosequencing there has been an unprecedented molecular data explosion over the last 2-3 years. The growth of biological seq...
Background: The accurate determination of orthology and inparalogy relationships is essential for comparative sequence analysis, functional gene annotation and evolutionary studie...
Benjamin Linard, Julie D. Thompson, Olivier Poch, ...
We describe a method for finding ungapped conserved words in rRNA sequences that is effective, utilizes evolutionary information and does not depend on multiple sequence alignment...
Liaofu Luo, Li-Ching Hsieh, Fengmin Ji, Mengwen Ji...
Background: The increasing availability of molecular sequence data means that the accuracy of future phylogenetic studies is likely to by limited by systematic bias and taxon choi...
Martin O. Jones, Georgios D. Koutsovoulos, Mark L....