Research report 2014 - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

Computing phylogenies from genomes

Authors
Haubold, Bernhard
Departments

Evolutionsgenetik, Forschungsgruppe Bioinformatik

Summary
Computing phylogenies is one of the most popular applications in bioinformatics. For this purpose evolutionary distances are estimated between nucleotide or amino acid sequences and the phylogeny is reconstructed from these distances. However, estimating distances between long sequences is time consuming. Hence an ultrafast method for calculating distances between genomes has been developed.

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