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

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

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) ...

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

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

But corals have been around for about 460 million years, and they have survived multiple mass extinction events, including ...

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