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David Posada is affiliated with Universidade de Vigo in Spain and has contributed extensively to fields related to Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Their published work covers significant topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by David Posada include:

  • "Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 variant through Europe in the summer of 2020" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Massive gene presence-absence variation shapes an open pan-genome in the Mediterranean mussel" (2020), published in Genome biology
  • "CellPhy: accurate and fast probabilistic inference of single-cell phylogenies from scDNA-seq data" (2022), published in Genome biology
  • "SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity and the implications for qRT-PCR diagnostics and transmission" (2021), published in Genome Research
  • "CellCoal: Coalescent Simulation of Single-Cell Sequencing Samples" (2020), published in Molecular Biology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors include Nuria Estévez-Gómez, João M. Alves, Monica Valecha, Pilar Gallego-García, and Laura Tomás.

David Posada's research has appeared in a range of publication venues with the highest number of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other venues of frequent publication include Genome biology, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, and Genomics.

Best Publications

  • MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution.

    David Posada;Keith A. Crandall

  • jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing.

    Diego Darriba;Diego Darriba;Guillermo L Taboada;Ramón Doallo;David Posada

  • jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

    David Posada

  • TCS: a computer program to estimate gene genealogies.

    M. Clement;D. Posada;K. A. Crandall

  • Model Selection and Model Averaging in Phylogenetics: Advantages of Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Approaches Over Likelihood Ratio Tests

    David Posada;Thomas R. Buckley

  • ProtTest 3

    Diego Darriba;Guillermo L. Taboada;Ramón Doallo;David Posada

  • ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

    Federico Abascal;Rafael Zardoya;David Posada

  • ModelTest-NG: a new and scalable tool for the selection of DNA and protein evolutionary models

    Diego Darriba;David Posada;Alexey M Kozlov;Alexandros Stamatakis;Alexandros Stamatakis

  • Intraspecific gene genealogies: trees grafting into networks

    David Posada;Keith A. Crandall

  • RDP3: a flexible and fast computer program for analyzing recombination

    Darren P. Martin;Philippe Lemey;Martin Lott;Vincent Moulton

  • Evaluation of methods for detecting recombination from DNA sequences: Computer simulations

    David Posada;Keith A. Crandall

  • GeoDis: a program for the cladistic nested analysis of the geographical distribution of genetic haplotypes.

    D. Posada;K. A. Crandall;A. R. Templeton

  • Selecting the best-fit model of nucleotide substitution.

    David Posada;Keith A. Crandall

  • RDP2: recombination detection and analysis from sequence alignments

    D. P. Martin;C. Williamson;D. Posada

  • Automated Phylogenetic Detection of Recombination Using a Genetic Algorithm

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;David Posada;Michael B. Gravenor;Christopher H. Woelk

  • The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

    Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Andrew Rambaut;Marc A Suchard;Guy Baele

  • A Modified Bootscan Algorithm for Automated Identification of Recombinant Sequences and Recombination Breakpoints

    D.P. Martin;D. Posada;K.A. Crandall;C. Williamson

  • The causes and consequences of HIV evolution.

    Andrew Rambaut;David Posada;Keith A. Crandall;Edward C. Holmes

  • GARD: a genetic algorithm for recombination detection

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;David Posada;Michael B. Gravenor;Christopher H. Woelk

  • ProtTest-HPC: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

    Diego Darriba;Guillermo L. Taboada;Ramón Doallo;David Posada

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith A. Crandall
Keith A. Crandall George Washington University
Beatriz Novoa
Beatriz Novoa Spanish National Research Council
Rafael Zardoya
Rafael Zardoya Spanish National Research Council
D. James Harris
D. James Harris University of Porto
Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh
Marcos Pérez-Losada
Marcos Pérez-Losada George Washington University
Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Antonio Figueras
Antonio Figueras Spanish National Research Council
Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford

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