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Our new software tools for alignment-free sequence comparison and seed optimization:
Prot-SpaM, Multi-SpaM, Filtered Spaced-Word Matches, Slope-SpaM, kmacs and rasbhari.

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Visit our journal: Algorithms for Molecular Biology

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Publications (for citations etc., see ResearcherID, Research Gate or Google Scholar)

• Selected recent papers:
  
  
  • A.K. Lau, C.-A. Leimeister, B. Morgenstern (2019)
    Read-SpaM: assembly-free and alignment-free comparison of bacterial genomes with low sequencing coverage
    bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/550632
    
  • S. Röhling, B. Morgenstern (2019)
    The number of spaced-word matches between two DNA sequences as a function of the underlying pattern weight
    bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/527515
    
  • B. Morgenstern (2019)
    Virtual editors can significantly improve the visibility of junk journals - a case study.
    In: Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman (Eds.)
    Metrics and Misconduct: New Ecologies of Academic Research. MIT Press, to appear.
    
  • C.-A. Leimeister, T. Dencker, B. Morgenstern (2019)
    Accurate multiple alignment of distantly related genome sequences using Filtered Spaced Word Matches as anchor points
    Bioinformatics 35, 211-218
  • C.-A. Leimeister, J. Schellhorn, S. Schöbel, M. Gerth, C. Bleidorn, B. Morgenstern (2018)
    Prot-SpaM: Fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences
    GigaScience, giy148.
    
  • T. Dencker, C.-A. Leimeister, M. Gerth, C. Bleidorn, S. Snir, B. Morgenstern (2018)
    Multi-SpaM: a Maximum-Likelihood approach to Phylogeny reconstruction based on Multiple Spaced-Word Matches
    In: M. Blanchette, A. Ouangraoua (Eds.),
    Comparative Genomics, LNBI 11183, Springer, Proc. RECOMB-CG 2018, pp. 227-241.
    Preprint: arXiv:1803.09222 [q-bio.PE]
    
  • B. Morgenstern, S. Schöbel, C.-A. Leimeister (2017)
    Phylogeny reconstruction based on the length distribution of k-mismatch common substrings
    Algorithms for Molecular Biology 12, 27
  • C.-A. Leimeister, S. Sohrabi-Jahromi, B. Morgenstern (2017)
    Fast and Accurate Phylogeny Reconstruction using Filtered Spaced-Word Matches
    Bioinformatics 33, 971-979
  • L. Hahn, C.-A. Leimeister, R. Ounit, S. Lonardi, B. Morgenstern (2016)
    rasbhari: optimizing spaced seeds for database searching, read mapping and alignment-free sequence comparison
    PLOS Computational Biology 12, e1005107
    
  • B. Morgenstern, B. Zhu, S. Horwege, C.-A Leimeister (2015)
    Estimating evolutionary distances between genomic sequences from spaced-word matches
    Algorithms for Molecular Biology 10, 5
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