Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

K Katoh, H Toh - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The accuracy and scalability of multiple sequence alignment (MSA) of DNAs and proteins
have long been and are still important issues in bioinformatics. To rapidly construct a …

Multiple alignment of DNA sequences with MAFFT

K Katoh, G Asimenos, H Toh - Bioinformatics for DNA sequence analysis, 2009 - Springer
Multiple alignment of DNA sequences is an important step in various molecular biological
analyses. As a large amount of sequence data is becoming available through genome and …

Issues in bioinformatics benchmarking: the case study of multiple sequence alignment

MR Aniba, O Poch, JD Thompson - Nucleic acids research, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The post-genomic era presents many new challenges for the field of bioinformatics. Novel
computational approaches are now being developed to handle the large, complex and noisy …

Harnessing machine learning to guide phylogenetic-tree search algorithms

D Azouri, S Abadi, Y Mansour, I Mayrose… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Inferring a phylogenetic tree is a fundamental challenge in evolutionary studies. Current
paradigms for phylogenetic tree reconstruction rely on performing costly likelihood …

[图书][B] Algorithms in bioinformatics: A practical introduction

WK Sung - 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
Thoroughly Describes Biological Applications, Computational Problems, and Various
Algorithmic Solutions Developed from the author's own teaching material, Algorithms in …

R-Coffee: a method for multiple alignment of non-coding RNA

A Wilm, DG Higgins, C Notredame - Nucleic acids research, 2008 - academic.oup.com
R-Coffee is a multiple RNA alignment package, derived from T-Coffee, designed to align
RNA sequences while exploiting secondary structure information. R-Coffee uses an …

The evolutionary history of the order Antipatharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) as inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA: implications for black coral …

MR Brugler, DM Opresko… - Zoological Journal of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Although black corals inhabit all the world's oceans, they have been relatively understudied
as∼ 185 of 247 species occur at depths> 50 m. Antipatharians have been included in …

Morphology, molecular phylogeny and okadaic acid production of epibenthic Prorocentrum (Dinophyceae) species from the northern South China Sea

Z Luo, H Zhang, B Krock, S Lu, W Yang, H Gu - Algal Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Around 30 epibenthic Prorocentrum species have been described, but information about
their biogeography is limited. Some species are able to produce okadaic acid (OA) and its …

ModelTeller: model selection for optimal phylogenetic reconstruction using machine learning

S Abadi, O Avram, S Rosset, T Pupko… - Molecular biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Statistical criteria have long been the standard for selecting the best model for phylogenetic
reconstruction and downstream statistical inference. Although model selection is regarded …

The tree reconstruction game: phylogenetic reconstruction using reinforcement learning

D Azouri, O Granit, M Alburquerque… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The computational search for the maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree is an NP-hard
problem. As such, current tree search algorithms might result in a tree that is the local …