Wood biomass is the most abundant feedstock envisioned for the development of modern
biorefineries. However, the cost-effective conversion of this form of biomass into commodity …

Abstract The Environment for Tree Exploration (ETE) is a computational framework that
simplifies the reconstruction, analysis, and visualization of phylogenetic trees and multiple …

The importance of gene gain through duplication has long been appreciated. In contrast, the
importance of gene loss has only recently attracted attention. Indeed, studies in organisms …

Background Culture-independent molecular surveys targeting conserved marker genes,
most notably 16S rRNA, to assess microbial diversity remain semi-quantitative due to …

Progress in sequencing technology allows researchers to assemble ever-larger
supermatrices for phylogenomic inference. However, current phylogenomic studies often …

Tree balance plays an important role in phylogenetics and other research areas, which is
why several indices to measure tree balance have been introduced over the years …

The proliferation of DNA data is revolutionizing all fields of systematic research. DNA
barcode sequences, now available for millions of specimens and several hundred thousand …

Motivation: Advancing the search, publication and integration of bioinformatics tools and
resources demands consistent machine-understandable descriptions. A comprehensive …

SARS-CoV-2 has adapted in a stepwise manner, with multiple beneficial mutations
accumulating in a rapid succession at origins of VOCs, and the reasons for this are unclear …

Although extensive research has demonstrated host-retrovirus microevolutionary dynamics,
it has been difficult to gain a deeper understanding of the macroevolutionary patterns of host …