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Phylogenetics

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Molecular evolution; Phylogenetic inference; Reconstruction of evolutionary trees

Definition

Phylogenetics, or phylogenetic inference (bioinformatics discipline), deals with models and algorithms for reconstruction of the evolutionary history â€“ mostly in form of a (binary) evolutionary tree â€“ for a set of living biological organisms based upon their molecular (DNA) or morphological (morphological traits) sequence data.

Discussion

Introduction

The reconstruction of phylogenetic (evolutionary) trees from molecular or morphological sequence data is a comparatively old bioinformatics discipline, given that likelihood-based statistical models for phylogenetic inference were introduced in the early 1980s, while discrete criteria that rely on counting changes in the sequence data date back to the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Computationally, likelihood-based phylogenetic inference approaches represent a major challenge, because of high memory footprints and of floating point intensive...

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Stamatakis, A. (2011). Phylogenetics. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_443

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