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

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

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

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

The area known as the Santana Group in the Araripe Basin in northeastern Brazil has long been an important fossil site, ...

HHMI Investigator Nicole King and Postdoctoral Researcher Jacob Steenwyk used large datasets and a combination of analyses to understand which organism roots the animal tree of life: the simple sponge ...

The fossils found reveal the existence of Ahshislesaurus wimani, a new, duck-billed hadrosaur from the late Cretaceous period ...

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

A new study describes Wudingloong wui, an early long-necked dinosaur found in Yunnan, China. It is the oldest known member of ...

This important and compelling study establishes a robust computational and experimental framework for the large-scale identification of metallophore biosynthetic clusters. The work advances beyond ...

This study provides a valuable genome-centric characterization of microbial communities across deep sediment cores from a Spartina patens salt marsh. The study provides claims on the metabolic ...

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 ...