3 papers
q-bio.PE2019
Species Tree Estimation Using ASTRAL: Practical Considerations
Siavash Mirarab
ASTRAL is a method for reconstructing species trees after inferring a set of gene trees and is increasingly used in phylogenomic analyses. It is statistically consistent under the…
q-bio.PE2017
DiscoVista: interpretable visualizations of gene tree discordance
Erfan Sayyari, James B. Whitfield, Siavash Mirarab
Phylogenomics has ushered in an age of discordance. Analyses often reveal abundant discordances among phylogenies of different parts of genomes, as well as incongruences between sp…
q-bio.GN2015
Ultra-large alignments using Phylogeny-aware Profiles
Nam-phuong Nguyen, Siavash Mirarab, Keerthana Kumar +1
Many biological questions, including the estimation of deep evolutionary histories and the detection of remote homology between protein sequences, rely upon multiple sequence align…