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BEAST in the cloud

We recently managed to set-up an account on amazon web service (AWS) that will enable us to test out how practical and efficient it will be to do computationally intensive analyses in the cloud. We often wonder whether it is worth spending loads of money on new servers and lots of time managing the hardware […]

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Recombination detection programs

A critical step before phylogenetic analysis and molecular selection analysis is to detect recombination and either remove recombinant sequences or partition the alignment into different spans that a recombination-free. The problem is that there are so many different recombination detection programs available. These have been nicely review by Posada (2002) and some of the programs […]

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