Placing new sequences onto reference phylogenies is increasingly used for analyzing
environmental samples, especially microbiomes. Existing placement methods assume that …

While alignment has been the dominant approach for determining homology prior to
phylogenetic inference, alignment-free methods can simplify the analysis, especially when …

Simple Summary Phylogenetic placement seeks to find the optimal position for a new query
species on an existing backbone tree. Fast and accurate distance-based phylogenetic …

Thanks to the advances in sequencing technologies in the last two decades, the set of
available whole-genome sequences has been expanding rapidly. One of the challenges in …