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episode 68: Phylogenetic inference from raw reads and Read2Tree with David Dylus
In this episode, David Dylus talks about Read2Tree, a tool that builds alignment matrices and phylogenetic trees from raw sequencing reads. By leveraging the database of orthologous genes called OMA, Read2Tree bypasses traditional, time-consuming steps such as genome assembly, annotation and all-versus-all sequence comparisons.
Links:
- Inference of phylogenetic trees directly from raw sequencing reads using Read2Tree (David Dylus, Adrian Altenhoff, Sina Majidian, Fritz J. Sedlazeck, Christophe Dessimoz)
- Background story
- Read2Tree on GitHub
- OMA browser
- The Guardian’s podcast about Victoria Amelina and Volodymyr Vakulenko
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