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...
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
Tjorben Completes His Master’s Thesis
Tjorben defended his Master’s thesis at Lübeck University today. His thesis is focused on a web tool he wrote for visualizing the taxonomy of sequenced life,...
New dates for the courses
The new dates for our anual courses Bioinformatics for Evolutionary Biologists and Go Programming, Biologists have been set:
Sara-Lena Completes Her Master’s Thesis
Earlier this week Sara-Lena defended her Master’s thesis at Lübeck University. Sara-Lena compared fast methods for classifying bacteria based on their genome...
Open PhD positions
We have two open PhD positions. The application deadline is 11th January, 2026. For more info see the 2026 IMPRs EvolBio call