High-Performance Phylogenetic Inference

Abstract

Software tools based on the maximum likelihood method and Bayesian methods are widely used for phylogenetic tree inference. This article surveys recent research on parallelization and performance optimization of state-of-the-art tree inference tools. We outline advances in shared-memory multicore parallelization, optimizations for efficient Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) execution, as well as large-scale distributed-memory parallelization.

Publication
Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics: Seminal Contributions of Bernard Moret
David A. Bader
David A. Bader
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science

David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Kamesh Madduri
Kamesh Madduri
Associate Professor