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Overview

Jotun Hein is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with a strong focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics as subfields. Additional subfields of their work include Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, notably:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Recent publications reflect these themes and include:

  • Ongoing Recombination in SARS-CoV-2 Revealed through Genealogical Reconstruction, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • KwARG: parsimonious reconstruction of ancestral recombination graphs with recurrent mutation, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • Pleiotropic constraints promote the evolution of cooperation in cellular groups, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Recoverability of ancestral recombination graph topologies, 2023, Theoretical Population Biology
  • A characterisation of the genealogy of a birth-death process through time rescaling, 2020, Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick)

Jotun Hein has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Anastasia Ignatieva
  • Paul A. Jenkins
  • Elizabeth Hayman
  • Oliver Weller-Davies
  • Mike Steel

The primary publication venues where their work appears with notable frequency include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Theoretical Population Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, arXiv (Cornell University), and PLoS Biology.

Best Publications

  • Unified approach to alignment and phylogenies.

    Jotun Hein

  • Pfold: RNA secondary structure prediction using stochastic context-free grammars

    Bjarne Knudsen;Jotun Hein

  • RNA secondary structure prediction using stochastic context-free grammars and evolutionary history.

    Bjarne Knudsen;Jotun Hein

  • Reconstructing evolution of sequences subject to recombination using parsimony.

    Jotun Hein

  • A heuristic method to reconstruct the history of sequences subject to recombination

    Jotun Hein

  • On the complexity of comparing evolutionary trees

    Jotun Hein;Tao Jiang;Lusheng Wang;Kaizhong Zhang

  • A new method that simultaneously aligns and reconstructs ancestral sequences for any number of homologous sequences, when the phylogeny is given.

    Jotun Hein

  • Recombination as a Point Process along Sequences

    Carsten Wiuf;Jotun Hein

  • Genome-wide identification of human functional DNA using a neutral indel model.

    Gerton Lunter;Chris P Ponting;Jotun Hein

  • Bayesian coestimation of phylogeny and sequence alignment

    Gerton Lunter;István Miklós;Alexei J. Drummond;Jens Ledet Jensen

  • Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life

    Wim Hordijk;Jotun Hein;Mike A. Steel

  • Using biological networks to search for interacting loci in genome-wide association studies

    Mathieu Emily;Mathieu Emily;Thomas Mailund;Jotun Hein;Leif Schauser

  • Constructing minimal ancestral recombination graphs.

    Yun S. Song;Jotun Hein

  • Uncertainty in homology inferences: Assessing and improving genomic sequence alignment

    Gerton Lunter;Andrea Rocco;Naila Mimouni;Andreas Heger

  • Gene finding with a hidden Markov model of genome structure and evolution.

    Jakob Skou Pedersen;Jotun Hein

  • Recombination and the Molecular Clock

    Mikkel H. Schierup;Jotun Hein

  • A Simulation Study of the Reliability of Recombination Detection Methods

    Carsten Wiuf;Thomas Christensen;Jotun Hein

  • A nucleotide substitution model with nearest-neighbour interactions

    Gerton Lunter;Jotun Hein

  • StatAlign: an extendable software package for joint Bayesian estimation of alignments and evolutionary trees.

    Ádám Novák;István Miklós;Rune B. Lyngsø;Jotun Hein

  • The Cardamine hirsuta genome offers insight into the evolution of morphological diversity

    Xiangchao Gan;Angela Hay;Michiel Kwantes;Georg Haberer

  • Statistical alignment: computational properties, homology testing and goodness-of-fit.

    J. Hein;C. Wiuf;B. Knudsen;M.B. Møller

  • Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics: An Introduction

    Jotun Hein;Carsten Wiuf

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerton Lunter
Gerton Lunter University of Oxford
Carsten Wiuf
Carsten Wiuf University of Copenhagen
Mike Steel
Mike Steel University of Canterbury
Mikkel H. Schierup
Mikkel H. Schierup Aarhus University
Gail M. Preston
Gail M. Preston University of Oxford
Alexei J. Drummond
Alexei J. Drummond University of Auckland
Paul Kellam
Paul Kellam Imperial College London
Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford
Rahul Satija
Rahul Satija New York University
Richard Mott
Richard Mott University College London

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