AST: An Automated Sequence-Sampling Method for Improving the Taxonomic Diversity of Gene Phylogenetic Trees

• Chan Zhou,

  Current address: Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Fenglou Mao,

  Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Yanbin Yin,

  Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, United States of America

  Affiliation Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

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• Jinling Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Johann Peter Gogarten,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Ying Xu

  * E-mail: xyn@bmb.uga.edu

  Affiliations Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun, China

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