Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis,
transforming the biology and chemistry of our planet. Genomic and evolutionary studies …

To achieve a sustainable circular economy, polymer production must start transitioning to
recycled and biobased feedstock and accomplish CO2 emission neutrality. This is not only …

A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

Highly divergent sites in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), which can stem from
erroneous inference of homology and saturation of substitutions, are thought to negatively …

Annotating coding genes and inferring orthologs are two classical challenges in genomics
and evolutionary biology that have traditionally been approached separately, limiting …

The evolutionary relationships of two animal phyla, Ctenophora and Xenacoelomorpha,
have proved highly contentious. Ctenophora have been proposed as the most distant …

Resolving the relationships between the major lineages in the animal tree of life is
necessary to understand the origin and evolution of key animal traits. Sponges …

Quantum computing holds substantial potential for applications in biology and medicine,
spanning from the simulation of biomolecules to machine learning methods for subtyping …

Motivation Diverse disciplines in biology process and analyze multiple sequence alignments
(MSAs) and phylogenetic trees to evaluate their information content, infer evolutionary …

Current methods for inference of phylogenetic trees require running complex pipelines at
substantial computational and labor costs, with additional constraints in sequencing …