Background: Similarity of sequences is a key mathematical notion for Classification and Phylogenetic studies in Biology. It is currently primarily handled using alignments. Howeve...
Paolo Ferragina, Raffaele Giancarlo, Valentina Gre...
Background: Some distance methods are among the most commonly used methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from sequence data. The input to a distance method is a distance m...
Background: It is useful to develop a tool that would effectively describe protein mutation matrices specifically geared towards the identification of mutations that produce eithe...
Maria Pamela C. David, Carlo M. Lapid, Vincent Ric...
Background: Data mining in large DNA sequences is a major challenge in microbial genomics and bioinformatics. Oligonucleotide usage (OU) patterns provide a wealth of information f...
Hamilton Ganesan, Anna S. Rakitianskaia, Colin F. ...
Background: In the genomic age, gene trees may contain large amounts of data making them hard to read and understand. Therefore, an automated simplification is important. Results:...
Paul-Ludwig Lott, Marvin Mundry, Christoph Sassenb...