Tag Archives: BaTS

BaTS (and Befi-BaTS), SHiAT, and Genome Convergence Pipeline have moved!

Important – please take note! Headline: All my phylogenetics software is now on GitHub, not websites or Google Code Please use the new FAQ pages and issue/bug tracker forms, rather than emailing me directly in the first instance Until now, … Continue reading

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Molecular epidemiology and phylogeny reveals complex spatial dynamics of endemic canine parvovirus.

J Virol. 2011 May 18. [Epub ahead of print] Clegg SR, Coyne KP, Parker J, Dawson S, Godsall SA, Pinchbeck G, Cripps PJ, Gaskell RM, Radford AD. Canine parvovirus 2 (CPV-2) is a severe enteric pathogen of dogs, causing high … Continue reading

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Befi-BaTS v0.1.1 alpha release

Long-overdue update for beta version of Befi-BaTS. Software: Befi-BaTS Author: Joe Parker Version: 0.1.1 beta (download here) Release notes: Befi-BaTS v0.1 beta drops support for hard polytomies (tree nodes with > 2 daughters), now throwing a HardPolytomyException to the error … Continue reading

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The within- and among-host evolution of chronically-infecting human RNA viruses

A research thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. J Parker Funded by: Natural Environment Research Council (UK) with support from Linacre College, Oxford. Abstract: This thesis examines the evolutionary biology of the … Continue reading

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Correlating Viral Phenotypes With Phylogeny: Accounting for Phylogenetic Uncertainty

Infect Genet Evol. 2008 May;8(3):239-46. Epub 2007 Aug 21. Parker J, Rambaut A, Pybus OG. Many recent studies have sought to quantify the degree to which viral phenotypic characters (such as epidemiological risk group, geographic location, cell tropism, drug resistance … Continue reading

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