Phylogenetic trees are fractal in the sense that the same ... tree with the root at the bottom and the tips at the top. The labels at the "tips" of a phylogeny can correspond to individual ...

Figure 1: A high-resolution microbial tree of life with taxonomic ... an important application of automated phylogenetic reconstruction is to suggest taxonomic labels for newly sequenced genomes.

The tool, called PsiPartition, improves both the computational efficiency of the data analysis and the accuracy of the phylogenetic trees that visualize these relationships. The novel method was ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of ...