Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

Z Yang, B Rannala - Nature reviews genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Phylogenies are important for addressing various biological questions such as relationships
among species or genes, the origin and spread of viral infection and the demographic …

A survey of methods and tools to detect recent and strong positive selection

P Pavlidis, N Alachiotis - Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, 2017 - Springer
Positive selection occurs when an allele is favored by natural selection. The frequency of the
favored allele increases in the population and due to genetic hitchhiking the neighboring …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI

K Smith, D Ayres, R Neumaier, G Wörheide… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenies are central to many research areas in biology and commonly estimated using
likelihood-based methods. Unfortunately, any likelihood-based method, including Bayesian …

FPGA acceleration of probabilistic sentential decision diagrams with high-level synthesis

Y Choi, C Santillana, Y Shen, A Darwiche… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams (PSDDs) provide efficient methods for modeling
and reasoning with probability distributions in the presence of massive logical constraints …

Regular feature extraction for recognition of Braille

CM Ng, V Ng, Y Lau - Proceedings Third International …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Braille, a touch-reading system for visually impaired people was first introduced in 1825 by
Louis Braille. Editing and reprinting Braille text that was originally embossed on paper is …

Felsenstein phylogenetic likelihood

D Posada, KA Crandall - Journal of molecular evolution, 2021 - Springer
Abstract In 1981, the Journal of Molecular Evolution (JME) published an article entitled
“Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach” by Joseph (Joe) …

Statistical robustness of Markov chain Monte Carlo accelerators

X Zhang, R Bashizade, Y Wang, S Mukherjee… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Statistical machine learning often uses probabilistic models and algorithms, such as Markov
Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), to solve a wide range of problems. Probabilistic computations …

Scalable linkage-disequilibrium-based selective sweep detection: a performance guide

N Alachiotis, P Pavlidis - GigaScience, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background Linkage disequilibrium is defined as the non-random associations of alleles at
different loci, and it occurs when genotypes at the two loci depend on each other. The model …

[PDF][PDF] Models, optimizations, and tools for large-scale phylogenetic inference, handling sequence uncertainty, and taxonomic validation

O Kozlov - 2018 - cme.h-its.org
Zusammenfassung Das Konzept der Evolution ist in der modernen Biologie von zentraler
Bedeutung. Deswegen liefert die Phylogenetik, die Lehre über die Verwandschaften und …