Benoit Morel

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SEEK ID: https://publications.h-its.org/people/56

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Computational Molecular Evolution

The Computational Molecular Evolution (CME) group focuses on developing algorithms, computer architectures, and high-performance computing solutions for bioinformatics.

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Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

Country: Germany

City: Heidelberg

Web page: https://www.h-its.org

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Distanzbasierte Inferenz von Genbäumen unter Berücksichtigung ihres Speziesbaumes

Computational Molecular Evolution

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In dieser Arbeit wird Spearfish, eine neue Methode zur distanzbasierten Inferenz von Genbäumen, entwickelt und getestet. Spearfish verwendet die paarweisen Distanzen der Gensequenzen, sowie die Distanzen …

Authors: Lukas Knirsch, Benoit Morel, Alexandros Stamatakis

Date Published: 2nd Oct 2025

Publication Type: Bachelor's Thesis

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Created: 9th Jan 2025 at 13:16, Last updated: 9th Jan 2025 at 13:16

Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes

Computational Molecular Evolution

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Despite tremendous efforts in the past decades, relationships among main avian lineages remain heavily debated without a clear resolution. Discrepancies have been attributed to diversity of species …

Authors: Josefin Stiller, Shaohong Feng, Al-Aabid Chowdhury, Iker Rivas-González, David A. Duchêne, Qi Fang, Yuan Deng, Alexey Kozlov, Alexandros Stamatakis, Santiago Claramunt, Jacqueline M. T. Nguyen, Simon Y. W. Ho, Brant C. Faircloth, Julia Haag, Peter Houde, Joel Cracraft, Metin Balaban, Uyen Mai, Guangji Chen, Rongsheng Gao, Chengran Zhou, Yulong Xie, Zijian Huang, Zhen Cao, Zhi Yan, Huw A. Ogilvie, Luay Nakhleh, Bent Lindow, Benoit Morel, Jon Fjeldså, Peter A. Hosner, Rute R. da Fonseca, Bent Petersen, Joseph A. Tobias, Tamás Székely, Jonathan David Kennedy, Andrew Hart Reeve, Andras Liker, Martin Stervander, Agostinho Antunes, Dieter Thomas Tietze, Mads Bertelsen, Fumin Lei, Carsten Rahbek, Gary R. Graves, Mikkel H. Schierup, Tandy Warnow, Edward L. Braun, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Erich D. Jarvis, Siavash Mirarab, Guojie Zhang

Date Published: 1st Apr 2024

Publication Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07323-1

Citation: Nature

Created: 23rd Apr 2024 at 11:12, Last updated: 23rd Apr 2024 at 11:13

Approximating Phylogenetic Tree Distributions with Distance-Based Methods

Computational Molecular Evolution

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Accurately reconstructing the evolutionary history of a group of organism is a complex task. Current state-of-the-art tools produce phylogenetic tree distributions with Markov chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) …

Authors: Noah Wahl, Benoit Morel, Alexandros Stamatakis

Date Published: 1st Dec 2023

Publication Type: Master's Thesis

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Created: 9th Jan 2025 at 13:13

AleRax: A tool for gene and species tree co-estimation and reconciliation under a probabilistic model of gene duplication, transfer, and loss

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ABSTRACT Motivation Genomes are a rich source of information on the pattern and process of evolution across biological scales. How best to make use of that information is an active area of research in …at information is an active area of research in phylogenetics. Ideally, phylogenetic methods should not only model substitutions along gene trees, which explain differences between homologous gene sequences, but also the processes that generate the gene trees themselves along a shared species tree. To conduct accurate inferences, one needs to account for uncertainty at both levels, that is, in gene trees estimated from inherently short sequences and in their diverse evolutionary histories along a shared species tree. Results We present AleRax, a software that can infer reconciled gene trees together with a shared species tree using a simple, yet powerful, probabilistic model of gene duplication, transfer, and loss. A key feature of AleRax is its ability to account for uncertainty in the gene tree and its reconciliation by using an efficient approximation to calculate the joint phylogenetic-reconciliation likelihood and sample reconciled gene trees accordingly. Simulations and analyses of empirical data show that AleRax is one order of magnitude faster than competing gene tree inference tools while attaining the same accuracy. It is consistently more robust than species tree inference methods such as SpeciesRax and ASTRAL-Pro 2 under gene tree uncertainty. Finally, AleRax can process multiple gene families in parallel thereby allowing users to compare competing phylogenetic hypotheses and estimate model parameters, such as DTL probabilities for genome-scale datasets with hundreds of taxa Availability and Implementation GNU GPL at https://github.com/BenoitMorel/AleRax and data are made available at https://cme.h-its.org/exelixis/material/alerax_data.tar.gz . Contact Benoit.Morel@h-its.org Supplementary information Supplementary material is available.

Authors: Benoit Morel, Tom A. Williams, Alexandros Stamatakis, Gergely J. Szöllősi

Date Published: 7th Oct 2023

Publication Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.06.561091

Citation: biorxiv;2023.10.06.561091v2,[Preprint]

Created: 2nd Jan 2024 at 18:29, Last updated: 5th Mar 2024 at 21:25

The power and limitations of species tree-aware phylogenetics

Computational Molecular Evolution

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Abstract Species tree-aware phylogenetic methods model how gene trees are generated along the species tree by a series of evolutionary events, including the duplication, transfer and loss of genes. …

Authors: Tom A. Williams, Adrian A. Davin, Benoit Morel, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Anja Spang, Alexandros Stamatakis, Philip Hugenholtz, Gergely J. Szöllősi

Date Published: 17th Mar 2023

Publication Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.17.533068

Citation: biorxiv;2023.03.17.533068v1,[Preprint]

Created: 2nd Jan 2024 at 18:22, Last updated: 5th Mar 2024 at 21:25

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