Phylogenomics and molecular taxonomy generate enormous amounts of data through the use of new sequencing techniques, which pose completely new challenges for data analyses and data security.
Within the zmb, we are meeting these challenges by developing new algorithms and programs and operating a high-performance computer.
The bioinformatics, biodiversity informatics, and IT sections work closely together at the LIB.
In addition, they support the scientists at the entire LIB with their expertise. Dr Alexander Donath (bioinformatician) and Mr Sebastian Martin (scientific programmer) are currently based in the section.
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Projects
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BIGFOOT - BIodiversity decline's Genomic FOOTprint
Management: Dr. habil. Astrid Böhne, Dr. Eckart Stolle
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Provenance research at the Museum Koenig
Management: Dr. André Koch
Publications
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2026/07
Genomic Contingence Beneath Ecological Convergence: The Tempo and Mode of Gene Loss in Parasitic Bilaterians
Evolution
2026/02
Genome and transcriptome‐based identification and expression profiling of chemosensory gene families across developmental stages and tissues in Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)
Insect Molecular Biology
2025/10
The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research
Trends in Genetics
2025/05
Type genomics: a framework for integrating genomic data into biodiversity and taxonomic research
Systematic Biology, 6, 74
2025/03
Increased phenotypic diversity as a consequence of ecological opportunity in the island radiation of Sulawesi ricefishes (Teleostei: Adrianichthyidae)
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 1, 25
2025/01
FOGS: A SNPSTR Marker Database to Combat Wildlife Trafficking and a Cell Culture Bank for Ex‐Situ Conservation
Molecular Ecology resources
2025/01
A chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly and annotation for the Eurasian minnow (Leuciscidae: Phoxinus phoxinus) provide evidence of haplotype diversity
Gigascience, 14
2024/11
Adaptive variation in opsin expression of sticklebacks from different photic habitats
Hydrobiologia
2024/08
The last of their kind: Is the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) a relict element of the paleo-transhimalaya biota?
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2024/08
Exploring Paleogene Tibet's warm temperate environments through target enrichment and phylogenetic niche modelling of Himalayan spiny frogs (Paini, Dicroglossidae)
Molecular ecology, 15, 33
2024/07
Phylogenomics recovers multiple origins of portable case making in caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera), nature’s underwater architects
Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological sciences/Proceedings - Royal Society. Biological Sciences, 2026, 291
2023/12
Evidence for selfing in a vertebrate from whole-genome sequencing
Genome Research, 12, 33
2023/07
Shedding light on starvation in darkness in the plastid-bearing sea slug Elysia viridis (Montagu, 1804)
Marine biology, 7, 170
2022/06
Delimiting continuity: Comparison of target enrichment and double digest restriction‐site associated DNA sequencing for delineating admixing parapatric Melitaea butterflies
Systematic entomology, 4, 47
2022/01
Cladobranchia (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia) as a Promising Model to Understand the Molecular Evolution of Photosymbiosis in Animals
Frontiers in Marine Science, 8
2021/08
The complete mitochondrial genome of the photosymbiotic sea slug Berghia stephanieae (Valdés, 2005) (Gastropoda, Nudibranchia)
Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 8, 6
2021/06
Midgut transcriptome assessment of the cockroach-hunting wasp Ampulex compressa (Apoidea: Ampulicidae)
PloS one, 6, 16
2020/11
Author Correction: Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the evolutionary pathways towards acoustic communication in Orthoptera
Nature communications, 1, 11
2020/11
Are fleas highly modified Mecoptera? Phylogenomic resolution of Antliophora (Insecta: Holometabola)
2020/10
Correction to: An integrative phylogenomic approach to elucidate the evolutionary history and divergence times of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola)
BMC evolutionary biology, 1, 20
2020/10
Identification of scavenger receptors and thrombospondin‐type‐1 repeat proteins potentially relevant for plastid recognition in Sacoglossa
Ecology and Evolution, 21, 10
2020/07
How old are dragonflies and damselflies? Odonata (Insecta) transcriptomics resolve familial relationships
2020/01
Phylogenomics changes our understanding about earwig evolution
Systematic entomology, 3, 45
2019/08
Robust reference gene design and validation for expression studies in the large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, upon cardiac glycoside stress
Gene, 710
2018/12
Split-inducing indels in phylogenomic analysis
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 1, 13
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Dr. Alexander Donath
zmb Bioinformatics, HPC ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 344
E-mail: a.donath@leibniz-lib.de/leibniz-lib.de/fileadmin/user_upload/home/Bilder/LIB/Ueber_das_LIB/Mitarbeitende/Bonn/01_20241119_MKB_Portraits_LowRes_MartinSebastian_FKurceren_6N0A4146.jpg%3F1739187350)
Sebastian Martin
zmb Bioinformatics, HPC ScientistPhone: +49 228 9122 428
E-mail: s.martin@leibniz-lib.de
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