Abstract: In bioinformatics, protein multiple sequence alignment (MSA) and phylogenetic tree construction are among the major problems for which many algorithms have been developed to improve the ...

A wildlife ranger in New Zealand filmed “rare footage” of a fight between a flightless bird and the country’s “largest reptile,” officials said. Photo from New Zealand’s Department of ...

The “rare” video shows the “predatory” bird and the country’s “largest reptile” biting and chasing each other. Nick Fisentzidis was working on Tiritiri Matangi Island when he “hear ...

The team also designed the dataset to update automatically as new phylogenetic information about birds becomes available. Crucially, similar techniques used to construct this evolutionary tree can ...