Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data
Until recently, it has been common practice for a phylogenetic analysis to use a single gene sequence from a single individual organism as a proxy for an entire species. With te...
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CONFRONTING MULTICOLLINEARITY IN ECOLOGICAL MULTIPLE REGRESSION
The natural complexity of ecological communities regularly lures ecologists to collect elaborate data sets in which confounding factors are often present. Although multiple regr...
Absorbing boundary conditions for the numerical simulation of waves
In practical calculations, it is often essential to introduce artificial boundaries to limit the area of computation. Here we develop a systematic method for obtaining a hierarc...
Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Participation in social networking sites has dramatically increased in recent years. Services such as Friendster, Tribe, or the Facebook allow millions of individuals to create ...
X. The Bakerian Lecture. —Experimental relations of gold (and other metals) to light
That wonderful production of the human mind, the undulatory theory of light, with the phenomena for which it strives to account, seems to me, who am only an experimentalist, to ...
AWTY (are we there yet?): a system for graphical exploration of MCMC convergence in Bayesian phylogenetics
Abstract Summary: A key element to a successful Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference is the programming and run performance of the Markov chain. However, the explicit use o...
Quality in Qualitative Research
A variety of conceptions of qualitative research exist, with competing claims as to what counts as good quality work. Rather than opting for the criteria promoted by one variety...
Explaining heterogeneity in meta-analysis: a comparison of methods
Exploring the possible reasons for heterogeneity between studies is an important aspect of conducting a meta-analysis. This paper compares a number of methods which can be used ...
The Jalview Java alignment editor
Abstract Summary: Multiple sequence alignment remains a crucial method for understanding the function of groups of related nucleic acid and protein sequences. However, it is kno...
The ribosomal database project
The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) is a curated database that offers ribosome data along with related programs and services. The offerings include phylogenetically ordered ali...
Sifting the evidence---what's wrong with significance tests? Another comment on the role of statistical methods
The findings of medical research are often met with considerable scepticism, even when they have apparently come from studies with sound methodologies that have been subjected t...
Tau is a candidate gene for chromosome 17 frontotemporal dementia
Abstract Frontotemporal dementia with parkinsonism, chromosome 17 type (FTDP‐17), a recently defined disease entity, is clinically characterized by personality changes sometimes...