Most data analyses involve processing the data using some model. For example, standard parametric statistical tests assume a normal distrib...

As usual at the beginning of the week, this blog presents something in a lighter vein. Homologies lie at the heart of phylogenetic analys...

For those of you who do not understand the notation: Homo apriorius ponders the probability of a specified hypothesis, while Homo pra...

In statistical model testing, models can be tested by starting with the simplest model and progressively adding model complexity until the ...

As usual at the beginning of the week, this blog presents something in a lighter vein. However, this week we depart from phylogenetic netwo...

Since this is post #100 in this blog, I thought that we might celebrate with something humorous. Since evolutionists often have a tough tim...

Two types of phylogenetic network are commonly recognized, although there can be gradations between the two extremes. These go by many diff...

Mathematicians and other computational scientists have produced their own definitions of phylogenetic networks, independently of biologists...

Last week my attention was drawn to the forthcoming conference RECOMB-AB 2012 : First RECOMB Satellite Conference on Open Problems in Algo...