Internationale Kooperationen
- Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
- Research Associate, Natural History Museum, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
- Internationale wissenschaftliche Kooperationen in Phylogenomik, Systematik und Biodiversittsforschung
Wissenschaftliche Kernkompetenzen
Methodenentwicklung
Entwicklung von auf Quartetten basierenden Ansätzen zur Bewertung phylogenetischer Signale und zur Identifizierung systematischer Verzerrungen in phylogenomischen Datensätzen.
Diagnostik phylogenomischer Datensätze
Entwicklung von Analyse-Tools zur Erkennung heterogener Sequenzabweichungen und problematischer phylogenetischer Signale, darunter fallen Tools wie AliGROOVE und verwandte Ansätze.
Computational Workflows
Implementierung automatisierter Pipelines, die phylogenetische Rekonstruktion, Quartettanalysen und Visualisierung unter Verwendung von Perl, Python und R integrieren.
Software
SeaLion
Polarized quartet-based framework for assessing phylogenetic signal, conflict, and systematic bias in genomic datasets; NAR Genomics Bioinf. (2025).
PENGUIN
Perl-based software for quartet site-pattern analyses of aligned nucleotide and amino acid sequences; Cladistics (2017).
AliGROOVE
Tool for visualizing heterogeneous sequence divergence and identifying derived sequences that may bias phylogenetic inference; BMC Bioinformatics (2014).
BaCoCa
Base composition calculator for statistical analyses of sequence alignments and detection of phylogenetic bias; Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. (2014).
FASconCAT-G
Software for editing, processing, and concatenating nucleotide, amino acid, and G structure alignments; Front. Zool. (2014).
AMARE
Software for optimizing signal-to-noise ratios in AFLP datasets by detecting erroneous genotyping profiles; PLoS ONE (2012).
AliCUT
Companion tool for Aliscore to remove random-similarity positions from multiple sequence alignments.
Sämtliche software Tools sind auf meiner GitHub Seite verfügbar.
Projekte
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SeaLion – polarisierte Quartettanalyse in der Phylogenomik
Leitung: Dr. Patrick Kück
Publikationen
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2026/04
Persistent conflict in palaeognath phylogeny revealed by quartet-based and ML analyses
Frontiers in Zoology
2026/02
Clarifying Xenacoelomorpha phylogeny: A polarized quartet-based analysis with SeaLion
Gene
2025/05
Type genomics: a framework for integrating genomic data into biodiversity and taxonomic research
Systematic Biology, 6, 74
2025/03
Unraveling myriapod evolution: sealion, a novel quartet-based approach for evaluating phylogenetic uncertainty
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 1, 7
2022/07
Pitfalls of the site-concordance factor (sCF) as measure of phylogenetic branch support
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 3, 4
2022/05
SHERLOCK – an Automatized Analysis of Molecular Sequence Variation in Species Communities Using Statistical Tests on Patristic Tree Distances
Biodiversity online journal., 4, 2
2017/08
Can quartet analyses combining maximum likelihood estimation and Hennigian logic overcome long branch attraction in phylogenomic sequence data?
PloS one, 8, 12
2016/08
Plesiomorphic character states cause systematic errors in molecular phylogenetic analyses: a simulation study
Cladistics, 4, 32
2012/11
Automated Masking of AFLP Markers Improves Reliability of Phylogenetic Analyses
PloS one, 11, 7