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BMCBI
2005
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Scoredist: A simple and robust protein sequence distance estimator
Background: Distance-based methods are popular for reconstructing evolutionary trees thanks to their speed and generality. A number of methods exist for estimating distances from ...
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Volker Hollich
BMCBI
2010
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Detecting lateral gene transfers by statistical reconciliation of phylogenetic forests
Background: To understand the evolutionary role of Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT), accurate methods are needed to identify transferred genes and infer their timing of acquisition. Ph...
Sophie S. Abby, Eric Tannier, Manolo Gouy, Vincent...
BMCBI
2010
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JCoDA: a tool for detecting evolutionary selection
Background: The incorporation of annotated sequence information from multiple related species in commonly used databases (Ensembl, Flybase, Saccharomyces Genome Database, Wormbase...
Steven N. Steinway, Ruth Dannenfelser, Christopher...
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RECOMB
2005
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Likely Scenarios of Intron Evolution
Whether common ancestors of eukaryotes and prokaryotes had introns is one of the oldest unanswered questions in molecular evolution. Recently completed genome sequences have been u...
Miklós Csürös
APBC
2004
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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...