Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny

RC Edgar - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple sequence alignments are widely used to infer evolutionary relationships, enabling
inferences of structure, function, and phylogeny. Standard practice is to construct one …

A survey on the algorithm and development of multiple sequence alignment

Y Zhang, Q Zhang, J Zhou, Q Zou - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an essential cornerstone in bioinformatics, which can
reveal the potential information in biological sequences, such as function, evolution and …

MUSCLE v5 enables improved estimates of phylogenetic tree confidence by ensemble bootstrapping

RC Edgar - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Phylogenetic tree confidence is often estimated from a multiple sequence alignment (MSA)
using the Felsenstein bootstrap heuristic. However, this does not account for systematic …

A machine-learning-based alternative to phylogenetic bootstrap

N Ecker, D Huchon, Y Mansour, I Mayrose… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Currently used methods for estimating branch support in phylogenetic analyses
often rely on the classic Felsenstein's bootstrap, parametric tests, or their approximations. As …

The monotypic genus Flavocetraria and two new genera: Cladocetraria and Foveolaria, in the cetrarioid core

SV Chesnokov, EA Davydov, LA Konoreva… - Plant Systematics and …, 2023 - Springer
Data on morphology, anatomy, secondary chemistry, ecology, as well as phylogenetic
reconstructions based on ITS/5.8 S and mtSSU sequence data suggest that “Flavocetraria” …

Novel chitinolytic bacteria from the shrimp shell processing waste

M Masri, EKA SUKMAWATY, L ADITIA - Biodiversitas Journal of Biological …, 2021 - smujo.id
Masri M, Sukmawaty E, Aditia L. 2021. Novel chitinolytic bacteria from the shrimp shell
processing waste. Biodiversitas 22: 2672-2681. Chitinase is an enzyme that hydrolyzes …

An empirical test of the relationship between the bootstrap and likelihood ratio support in maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis

D Jacob Machado, F Portella de Luna Marques… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In maximum likelihood (ML), the support for a clade can be calculated directly as the
likelihood ratio (LR) or log‐likelihood difference (S, LLD) of the best trees with and without …

Build a better bootstrap and the RAWR shall beat a random path to your door: phylogenetic support estimation revisited

W Wang, A Hejasebazzi, J Zheng, KJ Liu - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The standard bootstrap method is used throughout science and engineering to
perform general-purpose non-parametric resampling and re-estimation. Among the most …

Variational methods for phylogeny and single-cell genomics

H Koptagel - 2023 - diva-portal.org
The investigation of the evolutionary history of organisms, both at the cellular level and at the
species level, is a relevant research topic in computational biology. These investigations …

[PDF][PDF] Sequence alignment replicates reveal errors in molecular phylogenies

RC Edgar - 2021 - drive5.com
Here I provide further details of the algorithm, which is only briefly described in the Methods
section due to space constraints. The primary algorithm component of Muscle5 is PPP, a re …