Impressions from the ECCB2026
Last Friday Beatriz and Bernhard returned from the European Conference on Computational Biology, ECCB. It was held at the Geneva “Centre International de Con...
Welcome to the website of the Research Group Bioinformatics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Biology.
We work on computational tools for discovering genetic markers from
whole genome sequences. This has resulted in the programs
andi and
phylonium for estimating
evolutionary distances from genomes, the program
fur for finding unique regions
from target and off-target genomes, and the package
Neighbors for discovering
the target and off-target genomes available in Genbank. The most
interesting off-target genomes are the targets’ closest distinct
relatives, which we call their neighbors, hence the name of the
package, Neighbors.
To further support the discovery of targets and neighbors, we also provide a REST API for Neighbors hosted on our web server Never. This server underlies our website for visualizing the taxonomy of life and the associated genome sequences, Vitax.
Recent posts
Elif Has Joined Our Group
At the beginning of June, Elif Güler joined our group from the University of Bologna, where she is pursuing a Master’s in Bioinformatics. She is in Plön to r...
Ivan’s impressions of ESCMID Global 2026
Ivan attended the annual global congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) held in Munich on 17-21 April. Thi...
Benita and Ben Join Our Group
The summer semester has started, time for Bachelor’s and Master’s students everywhere to embark on their theses. Last week, Benita Horn and Ben Bahnsen from ...
Lloyd Finishes His Master’s Thesis
Two weeks ago Lloyd defended his Master’s thesis at the Institute of Plant Sciences and Microbiology in Hamburg. Our host was Prof. Dominik Begerow, who runs...