We present a probabilistic approach to language change in which word forms are represented by phoneme sequences that undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic ...
Abstract-- The Maximum Parsimony problem aims at reconstructing a phylogenetic tree from DNA sequences while minimizing the number of genetic transformations. To solve this NP-comp...
Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) are frequently used in the study of families of protein sequences or DNA/RNA sequences. They are a fundamental tool for the understanding of th...
Gaston H. Gonnet, Chantal Korostensky, Steven A. B...
Abstract. So far, most methods for identifying sequences under selection based on comparative sequence data have either assumed selectional pressures are the same across all branch...
Adam C. Siepel, Katherine S. Pollard, David Haussl...
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...