Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and biomedical and …

Deep-sea tubeworms in the annelid family Siboglinidae have drawn considerable interest
regarding their ecology and evolutionary biology. As adults, they lack a digestive tract and rely …

Languages can use a common repertoire of vocal sounds to signify distinct meanings. In
tonal languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, pitch contours of syllables distinguish one word …

Highly divergent sites in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), which can stem from erroneous
inference of homology and saturation of substitutions, are thought to negatively impact …

Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

In this paper, we propose a group-sensitive multiple kernel learning (GS-MKL) method to
accommodate the intra-class diversity and the inter-class correlation for object categorization. …

Identifying our most distant animal relatives has emerged as one of the most challenging
problems in phylogenetics. This debate has major implications for our understanding of the …

Humans’ ability to rapidly and accurately detect, identify and classify faces under variable
conditions derives from a network of brain regions highly tuned to face information. The …

Recent studies have shown that the feasibility of speech brain-computer interfaces (BCIs)
as a clinically valid treatment in helping nontonal language patients with communication …

Motivation Diverse disciplines in biology process and analyze multiple sequence alignments
(MSAs) and phylogenetic trees to evaluate their information content, infer evolutionary …