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Deivid Almeida
@deividalmeida.bsky.social
I’m a biologist from Amazonian and Ph.D candidate in genetics at UFRJ(@ufrjoficial.bsky.social). Visiting at @spechtlab.bsky.social. Bioinformatics and Plant evolution
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New paper on minimal NNs for phylogenetic inference, with former grad student, Ben Rosenzweig:

arxiv.org/abs/2512.02223
On the Approximation of Phylogenetic Distance Functions by Artificial Neural Networks
Inferring the phylogenetic relationships among a sample of organisms is a fundamental problem in modern biology. While distance-based hierarchical clustering algorithms achieved early success on this ...
arxiv.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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academia wrapped 2025
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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January 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hum that sounds interesting
New paper with @snaildit.bsky.social

You can use paralogs to reduce long-branch attraction!
This will be especially helpful when there are no extant taxa that can be sampled to break up these branches.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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Don't miss our new Editor's Choice article:

"Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?" by Regan L Cross & Christopher G Eckert.

Read it now for free!
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
September 5, 2024 at 4:18 PM