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Optimization strategies for fast detection of positive selection on phylogenetic trees

Mario Valle1, Hannes Schabauer2, Christoph Pacher1

  • 1Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Scientific Computing Group, Lugano, Switzerland, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Safety & Security Department, Vienna, Austria, Vital-IT Group, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Scientific Computing Group and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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