DNA surveillance: web-based molecular identification of whales, dolphins, and porpoises

HA Ross, GM Lento, ML Dalebout, M Goode… - Journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
DNA Surveillance is a Web-based application that assists in the identification of the species
and population of unknown specimens by aligning user-submitted DNA sequences with a …

TreeCmp: comparison of trees in polynomial time

D Bogdanowicz, K Giaro… - Evolutionary …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
When a phylogenetic reconstruction does not result in one tree but in several, tree metrics
permit finding out how far the reconstructed trees are from one another. They also permit to …

ProtTest-HPC: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

D Darriba, GL Taboada, R Doallo, D Posada - Euro-Par 2010 Parallel …, 2011 - Springer
The use of probabilistic models of amino acid replacement is essential for the study of
protein evolution, and programs like ProtTest implement different strategies to identify the …

Improvement of phylogenies after removing divergent and ambiguously aligned blocks from protein sequence alignments

G Talavera, J Castresana - Systematic biology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Alignment quality may have as much impact on phylogenetic reconstruction as the
phylogenetic methods used. Not only the alignment algorithm, but also the method used to …

HyPhy: hypothesis testing using phylogenies

SLK Pond, SDW Frost, SV Muse - Bioinformatics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The HyPhy package is designed to provide a flexible and unified platform for carrying out
likelihood-based analyses on multiple alignments of molecular sequence data, with the …

ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

F Abascal, R Zardoya, D Posada - Bioinformatics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Using an appropriate model of amino acid replacement is very important for the study of
protein evolution and phylogenetic inference. We have built a tool for the selection of the …
O Zhaxybayeva, JP Gogarten - BMC genomics, 2002 - Springer
Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) played an important role in sha** microbial
genomes. In addition to genes under sporadic selection, HGT also affects housekee** …