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BMCBI
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
MaxAlign: maximizing usable data in an alignment
Background: The presence of gaps in an alignment of nucleotide or protein sequences is often an inconvenience for bioinformatical studies. In phylogenetic and other analyses, for ...
Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira, Peter Wad Sackett, Ander...
BMCBI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Methodology capture: discriminating between the "best" and the rest of community practice
Background: The methodologies we use both enable and help define our research. However, as experimental complexity has increased the choice of appropriate methodologies has become...
James M. Eales, John W. Pinney, Robert D. Stevens,...
BMCBI
2010
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Phylogenetic representativeness: a new method for evaluating taxon sampling in evolutionary studies
Background: Taxon sampling is a major concern in phylogenetic studies. Incomplete, biased, or improper taxon sampling can lead to misleading results in reconstructing evolutionary...
Federico Plazzi, Ronald R. Ferrucci, Marco Passamo...
BIOINFORMATICS
2010
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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...
ALMOB
2007
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Consistency of the Neighbor-Net Algorithm
Background: Neighbor-Net is a novel method for phylogenetic analysis that is currently being widely used in areas such as virology, bacteriology, and plant evolution. Given an inp...
David Bryant, Vincent Moulton, Andreas Spillner
APBC
2004
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13 years 6 months ago
Identifying Character Non-Independence in Phylogenetic Data Using Data Mining Techniques
Undiscovered relationships in a data set may confound analyses, particularly those that assume data independence. Such problems occur when characters used for phylogenetic analyse...
Anne M. Maglia, Jennifer L. Leopold, Venkat Ram Gh...
SC
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Parallel Phylogenetic Inference
Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology have created large data sets upon which phylogenetic inference can be performed. However, current research is limited by the prohibiti...
Quinn Snell, Michael Whiting, Mark J. Clement, Dav...
CPM
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Small Phylogeny Problem: Character Evolution Trees
Abstract. Phylogenetics is a science of determining connections between groups of organisms in terms of ancestor/descendent relationships, usually expressed by phylogenetic trees, ...
Arvind Gupta, Ján Manuch, Ladislav Stacho, ...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Building the Tree of Life on Terascale Systems
Bayesian phylogenetic inference is an important alternative to maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic method. However, inferring large trees using the Bayesian approach is computat...
Xizhou Feng, Kirk W. Cameron, Carlos P. Sosa, Bria...
BICOB
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Fitness Distance Correlation Measure for Evolutionary Trees
Phylogenetics is concerned with inferring the genealogical relationships between a group of organisms (or taxa), and this relationship is usually expressed as an evolutionary tree....
Hyun Jung Park, Tiffani L. Williams