作者: Julie Beauregard-Racine , Cédric Bicep , Klaus Schliep , Philippe Lopez , François-Joseph Lapointe
关键词: Methodological pluralism 、 Gene regulatory network 、 Genetics 、 Computational biology 、 Heuristic 、 Tree of life 、 Biology
摘要: Background We introduce several forest-based and network-based methods for exploring microbial evolution, apply them to the study of thousands genes from 30 strains E. coli. This case illustrates how additional analyses could offer fast heuristic alternatives standard tree life (TOL) approaches.