Phylogeny, the tree of life Essential molecular mechanisms as replication and gene expression were found to be similar among the organisms studied so far. This favors the idea that all present day living organisms have evolved from a common ancestor. The relationship is called phylogeny and is represented by a phylogenetic tree.

Algorithms for Molecular Biology publishes articles on novel algorithms for biological sequence and structure analysis, phylogeny reconstruction, and combinatorial algorithms and machine learning. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: algorithms for RNA and protein structure analysis, gene prediction and genome analysis, comparative sequence analysis and alignment, phylogeny, gene e...