Deep learning as a tool for ecology and evolution

ML Borowiec, RB Dikow, PB Frandsen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deep learning is driving recent advances behind many everyday technologies, including
speech and image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving. It is …

Navigating the temporal continuum of effective population size

K Nadachowska‐Brzyska, M Konczal… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Effective population size, Ne, is a key evolutionary parameter that determines the levels of
genetic variation and efficacy of selection. Estimation and interpretation of Ne are essential …

Efficient ancestry and mutation simulation with msprime 1.0

F Baumdicker, G Bisschop, D Goldstein, G Gower… - Genetics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stochastic simulation is a key tool in population genetics, since the models involved are
often analytically intractable and simulation is usually the only way of obtaining ground-truth …

Single-haplotype comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific structural variation during cat evolution

KR Bredemeyer, LD Hillier, AJ Harris, GM Hughes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The role of structurally dynamic genomic regions in speciation is poorly understood due to
challenges inherent in diploid genome assembly. Here we reconstructed the evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models

JR Adrion, CB Cole, N Dukler, JG Galloway… - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The explosion in population genomic data demands ever more complex modes of analysis,
and increasingly, these analyses depend on sophisticated simulations. Recent advances in …

Harnessing deep learning for population genetic inference

X Huang, A Rymbekova, O Dolgova, O Lao… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
In population genetics, the emergence of large-scale genomic data for various species and
populations has provided new opportunities to understand the evolutionary forces that drive …

[PDF][PDF] Deep learning in population genetics

K Korfmann, OE Gaggiotti… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Population genetics is transitioning into a data-driven discipline thanks to the availability of
large-scale genomic data and the need to study increasingly complex evolutionary …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting adaptive introgression in human evolution using convolutional neural networks

G Gower, PI Picazo, M Fumagalli, F Racimo - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Studies in a variety of species have shown evidence for positively selected variants
introduced into a population via introgression from another, distantly related population—a …

An overview of current population genomics methods for the analysis of whole‐genome resequencing data in eukaryotes

YXC Bourgeois, BH Warren - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Characterizing the population history of a species and identifying loci underlying local
adaptation is crucial in functional ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation and …

Artificial intelligence-assisted selection and efficacy prediction of antineoplastic strategies for precision cancer therapy

ZHE Zhang, X Wei - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the context of the vast
amount of collectable data obtained from high-throughput sequencing has led to an …