Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>The combination of molecular sequence data and bioinformatics has revolutionized phylogenetic inference over the past decade, vastly increasing the scope of the evolutionary trees that we are able to infer. A recent paper in <it>BMC Biology </it>descr...

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Main Author: Bininda-Emonds Olaf RP
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-09-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/59
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description <p>Abstract</p> <p>The combination of molecular sequence data and bioinformatics has revolutionized phylogenetic inference over the past decade, vastly increasing the scope of the evolutionary trees that we are able to infer. A recent paper in <it>BMC Biology </it>describing a new phylogenomic pipeline to help automate the inference of evolutionary trees from public sequence databases provides another important tool in our efforts to derive the Tree of Life.</p> <p>See research article: <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/55</url></p>
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spelling doaj.art-9754690eeaec42e59ec0ca5da3329e872022-12-22T01:11:31ZengBMCBMC Biology1741-70072011-09-01915910.1186/1741-7007-9-59Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?Bininda-Emonds Olaf RP<p>Abstract</p> <p>The combination of molecular sequence data and bioinformatics has revolutionized phylogenetic inference over the past decade, vastly increasing the scope of the evolutionary trees that we are able to infer. A recent paper in <it>BMC Biology </it>describing a new phylogenomic pipeline to help automate the inference of evolutionary trees from public sequence databases provides another important tool in our efforts to derive the Tree of Life.</p> <p>See research article: <url>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/55</url></p>http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/59
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Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
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title Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
title_full Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
title_fullStr Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
title_full_unstemmed Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
title_short Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
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