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Yucai Shao, Marc A. Suchard, Andrew Rambaut, Xiang Ji + 3 more
While advances in molecular epidemiology and computational modeling have enhanced our capacity to track pathogen evolution, the accurate reconstruction of spatiotemporal transmission dynamics remains essential for developing epidemic preparedness frame-works and implementing outbreak response measures. Structured…
Felix Kallenborn, Fawaz Dabbaghie, Martin Steinegger, Bertil Schmidt
The continually increasing volume of sequence data results in a growing demand for fast implementations of core algorithms. Computation of pairwise alignments based on dynamic programming is an important part in many bioinformatics pipelines and a major contributor to overall runtime due to the associated quadratic…
Wilfried Agbeto, Camille Coti, Vladimir Reinharz
Advances in graph algorithmics have allowed in-depth study of many natural objects from molecular biology or chemistry to social networks. Particularly in molecular biology and cheminformatics, understanding complex structures by identifying conserved sub-structures is a key milestone towards the artificial design of…
Nhan Ly-Trong, Giuseppe M.J. Barca, Bui Quang Minh
Sequence simulation plays a vital role in phylogenetics with many applications, such as evaluating phylogenetic methods, testing hypotheses, and generating training data for machine-learning applications. We recently introduced a new simulator for multiple sequence alignments called AliSim, which outperformed existing…
Kecong Tang, Ahsan Sanaullah, Degui Zhi, Shaojie Zhang
Durbin’s positional Burrows-Wheeler transform (PBWT) enables algorithms with the optimal time complexity of O(MN) for reporting all vs all haplotype matches in a population panel with M haplotypes and N variant sites. However, even this efficiency may still be too slow when the number of haplotypes reaches millions. To…
Sumesh Kumar, Joseph Zambreno, Ashfaq Khokhar, Shoaib Akram + 1 more
Improving the speed and efficiency of database search algorithms that deduce peptides from mass spectrometry (MS) data has been an active area of research for more than three decades. The significance of the need for faster database search methods has rapidly increased due to the growing interest in studying non-model…
Christoph Stelz, Lukas Hübner, Alexandros Stamatakis
Phylogenetic trees describe the evolutionary history among biological species based on their genomic data. Maximum Likelihood (ML) based phylogenetic inference tools search for the tree and evolutionary model that best explain the observed genomic data. Given the independence of likelihood score calculations between…
Bertil Schmidt, Felix Kallenborn, Alejandro Chacon, Christian Hundt
The maximal sensitivity for local pairwise alignment makes the Smith-Waterman algorithm a popular choice for protein sequence database search. However, its quadratic time complexity makes it compute-intensive. Unfortunately, current state-of-the-art software tools are not able to leverage the massively parallel…
Quim Aguado-Puig, Max Doblas, Christos Matzoros, Antonio Espinosa + 3 more
Advances in genomics and sequencing technologies demand faster and more scalable analysis methods that can process longer sequences with higher accuracy. However, classical pairwise alignment methods, based on dynamic programming (DP), impose impractical computational requirements to align long and noisy sequences like…
Peiyu Zong, Wenpeng Deng, Jian Liu, Jue Ruan
The rapid advancements in sequencing length necessitate the adoption of increasingly efficient sequence alignment algorithms. The Needleman-Wunsch method introduces the foundational dynamic programming (DP) matrix calculation for global alignment, which evaluates the overall alignment of sequences. However, this method…
Max Doblas, Oscar Lostes-Cazorla, Quim Aguado-Puig, Cristian Iñiguez + 2 more
Pairwise sequence alignment is a core component of multiple sequencing-data analysis tools. Recent advancements in sequencing technologies have enabled the generation of longer sequences at a much lower price. Thus, long-read sequencing technologies have become increasingly popular in sequencing-based studies. However…