Who is Who in Phylogenetic Networks

Publications of Alix Boc     Order by:   Type | Year

Associated keywords

explicit-network from-rooted-trees from-sequences from-species-tree lateral-gene-transfer phylogenetic-network phylogeny Program-T-REX reconstruction reticulogram software

Article (Journal)

1 Alix Boc, Alpha B. Diallo and Vladimir Makarenkov. T-REX: a web server for inferring, validating and visualizing phylogenetic trees and networks. In NAR, Vol. 40(W1):W573-W579, 2012. Keywords: from rooted trees, from species tree, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program T REX, reconstruction, reticulogram, software. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gks485.         Toggle abstract "T-REX (Tree and reticulogram REConstruction) is a web server dedicated to the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees, reticulation networks and to the inference of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events. T-REX includes several popular bioinformatics applications such as MUSCLE, MAFFT, Neighbor Joining, NINJA, BioNJ, PhyML, RAxML, random phylogenetic tree generator and some well-known sequence-to-distance transformation models. It also comprises fast and effective methods for inferring phylogenetic trees from complete and incomplete distance matrices as well as for reconstructing reticulograms and HGT networks, including the detection and validation of complete and partial gene transfers, inference of consensus HGT scenarios and interactive HGT identification, developed by the authors. The included methods allows for validating and visualizing phylogenetic trees and networks which can be built from distance or sequence data. The web server is available at: www.trex.uqam.ca. © 2012 The Author(s)." 2 Alix Boc and Vladimir Makarenkov. Towards an accurate identification of mosaic genes and partial horizontal gene transfers. In NAR, Vol. 39(21):e144, 2011. Keywords: explicit network, from sequences, lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program T REX, reconstruction. Note: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr735.         Toggle abstract "Many bacteria and viruses adapt to varying environmental conditions through the acquisition of mosaic genes. A mosaic gene is composed of alternating sequence polymorphisms either belonging to the host original allele or derived from the integrated donor DNA. Often, the integrated sequence contains a selectable genetic marker (e.g. marker allowing for antibiotic resistance). An effective identification of mosaic genes and detection of corresponding partial horizontal gene transfers (HGTs) are among the most important challenges posed by evolutionary biology. We developed a method for detecting partial HGT events and related intragenic recombination giving rise to the formation of mosaic genes. A bootstrap procedure incorporated in our method is used to assess the support of each predicted partial gene transfer. The proposed method can be also applied to confirm or discard complete (i.e. traditional) horizontal gene transfers detected by any HGT inferring method. While working on a full-genome scale, the new method can be used to assess the level of mosaicism in the considered genomes as well as the rates of complete and partial HGT underlying their evolution. © 2011 The Author(s)." 3 Alix Boc, Hervé Philippe and Vladimir Makarenkov. Inferring and Validating Horizontal Gene Transfer Events Using Bipartition Dissimilarity. In Systematic Biology, Vol. 59(2):195-211, 2010. Note: http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~makarenv/makarenv/Artcile_SB_2010.pdf.

InProceedings

4 Vladimir Makarenkov, Alix Boc, Charles Delwiche, Alpha B. Diallo and Hervé Philippe. New Efficient Algorithm for Modeling Partial and Complete Gene Transfer Scenarios. In IFCS06, Pages 341-349, springer, 2006. Note: http://www.labunix.uqam.ca/~makarenv/makarenv/IFCS_2006_M_et_al.pdf.         5 Dung Nguyen, Alix Boc and Vladimir Makarenkov. HGT-Simulator : logiciel pour simuler des transferts horizontaux. In SFC05, 2005. Note: http://lacim.uqam.ca/~sfc05/Articles/Nguyen_%20Boc_Makarenkov.pdf.         6 Alix Boc, Vladimir Makarenkov and Abdoulaye B. Diallo. Une nouvelle méthode pour la détection de transferts horizontaux de gène : la réconciliation topologique d'arbres de gène et d'espèces. In JOBIM04, 2004. Note: http://www.labunix.uqam.ca/~makarenv/makarenv/JOBIM_2004.pdf.         7 Alix Boc and Vladimir Makarenkov. New Efficient Algorithm for Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfer Events. In WABI03, Vol. 2812:190-201 of LNCS, springer, 2003. Note: http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~makarenv/articles/article_WABI.pdf.

InBook

8 Vladimir Makarenkov, Alix Boc and Pierre Legendre. A New Algorithm for Inferring Hybridization Events Based on the Detection of Horizontal Gene Transfers. In Fuad Aleskerov, Boris Goldengorin and Panos M. Pardalos editors, Clusters, Orders, and Trees: Methods and Applications, Vol. 92 of Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Springer, 2014. Keywords: explicit network, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, reconstruction.

PhdThesis

9 Alix Boc. Détection des transferts horizontaux de gènes : modèles et algorithmes appliqués à l'évolution des espèces et des langues. PhD thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada, 2012. Keywords: explicit network, from rooted trees, from species tree, phylogenetic network, phylogeny, Program T REX, reconstruction. Note: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/QMUQ/TC-QMUQ-4658.pdf.