Bit Rot
The idea of “bit rot” might seem a bit fanciful. After all, perishable things like autumn leaves rot, but why should a substance as intangible as software un...
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
Returning from ISMB25
Last Friday the ISMB25 in Liverpool wrapped up like it had started, with one of the Chemistry Nobel laureates 2024 speaking. On the first day, John Jumper ha...
Abstracts for ISMB25 Accepted
The abstracts for this year’s ISCB have just been accepted. So Beatriz, Ivan, and Bernhard are looking forward to going to Liverpool in July.
New Neighbors
The Neighbors package helps find genomes for a target organism and its closest relatives, its neighbors. Targets and neighbors can be used to construct diagn...
Abstracts for ISMB25
Today’s the deadline for abstract submission for the next ISMB conference in Liverpool. We just finished submitting three abstracts on Fur, barcoding, and AN...