Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age

P Kapli, Z Yang, MJ Telford - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Knowing phylogenetic relationships among species is fundamental for many studies in
biology. An accurate phylogenetic tree underpins our understanding of the major transitions …

Characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 variants in Beijing during 2022: an epidemiological and phylogenetic analysis

Y Pan, L Wang, Z Feng, H Xu, F Li, Y Shen, D Zhang… - The lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Due to the national dynamic zero-COVID strategy in China, there were no
persistent local transmissions of SARS-CoV-2 in Beijing before December, 2022. However …

IQ-TREE: a fast and effective stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum-likelihood phylogenies

LT Nguyen, HA Schmidt… - … biology and evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Large phylogenomics data sets require fast tree inference methods, especially for maximum-
likelihood (ML) phylogenies. Fast programs exist, but due to inherent heuristics to find …

RevBayes: Bayesian phylogenetic inference using graphical models and an interactive model-specification language

S Höhna, MJ Landis, TA Heath, B Boussau… - Systematic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Programs for Bayesian inference of phylogeny currently implement a unique and fixed suite
of models. Consequently, users of these software packages are simultaneously forced to …

Terrace aware data structure for phylogenomic inference from supermatrices

O Chernomor, A Von Haeseler, BQ Minh - Systematic biology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In phylogenomics the analysis of concatenated gene alignments, the so-called supermatrix,
is commonly accompanied by the assumption of partition models. Under such models each …

Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling

S Reddy, RT Kimball, A Pandey, PA Hosner… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been
viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life …

Data integration in Bayesian phylogenetics

GW Hassler, AF Magee, Z Zhang… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Researchers studying the evolution of viral pathogens and other organisms increasingly
encounter and use large and complex data sets from multiple different sources. Statistical …

Using RAxML to infer phylogenies

A Stamatakis - Current protocols in bioinformatics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Inference of phylogenetic trees under the maximum likelihood (ML) criterion represents a
routine task in biological data analysis. In this unit we describe how to plan analyses and …

BEAGLE 3: improved performance, scaling, and usability for a high-performance computing library for statistical phylogenetics

DL Ayres, MP Cummings, G Baele, AE Darling… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
BEAGLE is a high-performance likelihood-calculation library for phylogenetic inference. The
BEAGLE library defines a simple, but flexible, application programming interface (API), and …

Evaluating fast maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic programs using empirical phylogenomic data sets

X Zhou, XX Shen, CT Hittinger… - Molecular biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The sizes of the data matrices assembled to resolve branches of the tree of life have
increased dramatically, motivating the development of programs for fast, yet accurate …