Inferring the Tree of Life: chopping a phylogenomic problem down to size?

Abstract

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.See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/55.