Background: The availability of sequences from whole genomes to reconstruct the tree of life has the potential to enable the development of phylogenomic hypotheses in ways that ha...
Indra Neil Sarkar, Mary G. Egan, Gloria M. Coruzzi...
Background: To infer the tree of life requires knowledge of the common characteristics of each species descended from a common ancestor as the measuring criteria and a method to c...
Sok June Oh, Je-Gun Joung, Jeong Ho Chang, Byoung-...
Background: The rapidly increasing speed with which genome sequence data can be generated will be accompanied by an exponential increase in the number of sequenced eukaryotes. Wit...
Evan S. Snitkin, Adam M. Gustafson, Joseph C. Mell...
We present new and novel insights into the behavior of two maximum parsimony heuristics for building evolutionary trees of different sizes. First, our results show that the heuris...
Seung-Jin Sul, Suzanne Matthews, Tiffani L. Willia...