Background: Phylogenetic relationships between genes are not only of theoretical interest: they enable us to learn about human genes through the experimental work on their relativ...
Background: There has been a trend in increasing the phylogenetic scope of genome sequencing without finishing the sequence of the genome. Increasing numbers of genomes are being ...
Background: Popular methods to reconstruct molecular phylogenies are based on multiple sequence alignments, in which addition or removal of data may change the resulting tree topo...
Olivier Bastien, Philippe Ortet, Sylvaine Roy, Eri...
Abstract Constantinos Daskalakis1 , Elchanan Mossel2, , and Sebastien Roch1 1 Microsoft Research 2 UC Berkeley and Weizman Institute We introduce a new phylogenetic reconstruction ...
A central problem in historical linguistics is the identification of historically related cognate words. We present a generative phylogenetic model for automatically inducing cogn...