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.

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