Multiple sequence alignments are central to many areas of bioinformatics. It has been
shown that the removal of poorly aligned regions from an alignment increases the quality of …

Despite recent advances achieved by application of high-performance computing methods
and novel algorithmic techniques to maximum likelihood (ML)-based inference programs …

Phylogenetic analyses are central to many research areas in biology and typically involve
the identification of homologous sequences, their multiple alignment, the phylogenetic …

Summary Highly active (ie," hot") long interspersed element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) sequences
comprise the bulk of retrotransposition activity in the human genome; however, the …

Background Many bioinformatics analyses, ranging from gene clustering to phylogenetics,
produce hierarchical trees as their main result. These are used to represent the relationships …

Phylemon 2.0 is a new release of the suite of web tools for molecular evolution,
phylogenetics, phylogenomics and hypotheses testing. It has been designed as a response …

DIVEIN is a web interface that performs automated phylogenetic and other analyses of
nucleotide and amino acid sequences. Starting with a set of aligned sequences, DIVEIN …

In angiosperms, shoot branching greatly determines overall plant architecture and affects
fundamental aspects of plant life. Branching patterns are determined by genetic pathways …

As more original molecular protocols and subsequent modifications are described in the
literature, it has become difficult for those not directly involved in the development of these …

Proteases of the caspase family play central roles in apoptosis and inflammation. Recently,
we have described a new gene encoding caspase-15 that has been inactivated …