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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Scientists discover a new species of bright orange venomous scorpionfish called Phenacoscorpius trispinis in Sagami Bay, ...

Thanks to corals’ deep-sea cousins, even the most extreme environmental changes—global warming or sudden, severe variations ...