I recently submitted an invited manuscript about multiple sequence alignment to a bioinformatics journal, but it did not fare well with the...

In the past two years, during which I have been writing for this blog, I have often tried to emphasize the importance of alignments in his...

This is a joint post by Guido Grimm, Johann-Mattis List, and Cormac Anderson. This is the second of a pair of posts dealing with the name...

Alignments have been discussed quite a few times in this blog. They are so extremely common in molecular biology that I doubt that there...

In a very interesting article from 2009 ( Morrison 2009 ), David discusses the question of why phylogeneticists would "ignore compute...

The historical development of the concept that we now call a "sequence alignment" is something that seems to have rarely been con...

Following a previous post on  Multiple sequence alignment , celebration of the 20th anniversary of my first publication in the alignment fi...

Phylogenetic networks can be used to illustrate the history of any set of objects or concepts, provided that this history is a divergent on...

Multiple sequence alignment software have not yet met their primary aim for evolutionary biologists: maximizing homology of characters. If ...

Multiple sequence alignment software have not yet met their primary aim for evolutionary biologists: maximizing homology of characters. The...

I started actively working on phylogenetic networks more than 10 years ago, when I gave a talk at the Phylogenetic Combinatorics and Applic...