Tag Archives: phylogeny

More Accurate Multiple Sequence Alignment

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Conrad Halling

The 20 June 2008 issue of Science contains a paper by Art Löytynoja and Nick Goldman titled “Phylogeny-aware gap placement prevents errors in sequence alignment and evolutionary analysis.” The authors tackled the difficult problem of how to handle correctly the … Continue reading →

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Understanding Evolutionary Trees

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Conrad Halling

Today I read “Understanding Evolutionary Trees”, by T. Ryan Gregory, the author of the Genomicron blog. Dr. Gregory mentioned his paper in his blog post, “Evolutionary Trees for Darwin Day”, and the paper appears in the new journal Evolution: Education … Continue reading →

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