title: Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?
abstract: The combination of molecular sequence data and bioinformatics has revolutionized phylogenetic inference over the past decade, vastly increasing the scope of the evolutionary trees that we are able to infer. A recent paper in BMC Biology describing a new phylogenomic pipeline to help automate the inference of evolutionary trees from public sequence databases provides another important tool in our efforts to derive the Tree of Life.
authors.affiliation: AG Systematik und Evolutionsbiologie, IBU-Fakultät V, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Carl von Ossietzky Strasse 9-11, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany. olaf.bininda@uni-oldenburg.de
authors.forename: Olaf R P
authors.initials: OR
authors.lastname: Bininda-Emonds
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D006927:Hymenoptera / Q000145:classification*; D010802:Phylogeny