When COVID-19 arrived, researchers tried to build evolutionary family trees—known as phylogenetic trees—of the virus. These ...

A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness ...

For ten years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) ...

Genomes are key to unlocking life's evolutionary history. The presence and absence of certain genetic sequences and mutations ...

This article introduces the field of bioinformatics and its importance as a cornerstone of biological research, as well as ...

In the world of phylogenetics, there's team sponge and team comb jelly. Which creature roots the animal tree of life—the simple sponge or the more complex comb jelly—has stirred fierce debate among ...

In the Amazon forest, human disturbances are now changing which trees grow, how they work, and how deep their evolutionary ...

Darwin knew he'd solved the paradox of how traits change across lineages, despite the fact that changes acquired over a ...

An international team of researchers has discovered three new, bizarre, and wart-covered species of tree toads from Tanzania ...