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Olivier Gascuel is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research portfolio encompasses a diverse range of topics related to genomics, phylogenetic studies, genetic diversity, infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS treatment development.

The main topics of Olivier Gascuel's work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Their prominent subfields of study are molecular biology, genetics, infectious diseases, paleontology, and virology. Olivier Gascuel's publications frequently appear in a set of recurring venues, highlighting particular outlets for their research dissemination:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Systematic Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Gotree/Goalign: toolkit and Go API to facilitate the development of phylogenetic workflows," 2021, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • "Deep learning from phylogenies to uncover the epidemiological dynamics of outbreaks," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Drug resistance mutations in HIV: new bioinformatics approaches and challenges," 2021, Current Opinion in Virology
  • "Deciphering RNA G-quadruplex function during the early steps of HIV-1 infection," 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent collaborators working alongside Olivier Gascuel include:

  • Anna Zhukova
  • Frédéric Lemoine
  • Jakub Voznica
  • Luc Blassel
  • Emma Saulnier

Olivier Gascuel's research bridges the domains of molecular biology and infectious diseases, with significant contributions to understanding the evolutionary dynamics of pathogens and genetic variation. Their work on HIV integrates computational and bioinformatics approaches to analyze drug resistance and viral genetics, contributing to treatment and epidemiological insights.

Best Publications

  • New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

    Stéphane Guindon;Jean-François Dufayard;Vincent Lefort;Maria Anisimova

  • A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm to estimate large phylogenies by maximum likelihood.

    Stéphane Guindon;Olivier Gascuel

  • SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

    Manolo Gouy;Stéphane Guindon;Olivier Gascuel

  • Phylogeny.fr: robust phylogenetic analysis for the non-specialist

    Alexis Dereeper;Valentin Guignon;Guillaume Blanc;Stéphane Audic

  • An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

    Si Quang Le;Olivier Gascuel

  • Approximate likelihood-ratio test for branches : A fast, accurate, and powerful alternative

    Maria Anisimova;Olivier Gascuel

  • BIONJ: an improved version of the NJ algorithm based on a simple model of sequence data.

    Olivier Gascuel

  • SMS: Smart Model Selection in PhyML.

    Vincent Lefort;Jean-Emmanuel Longueville;Olivier Gascuel;Olivier Gascuel

  • PHYML Online--a web server for fast maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic inference.

    Stéphane Guindon;Franck Lethiec;Patrice Duroux;Olivier Gascuel

  • FastME 2.0: A Comprehensive, Accurate, and Fast Distance-Based Phylogeny Inference Program

    Vincent Lefort;Richard Desper;Olivier Gascuel

  • Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes

    Maria Anisimova;Manuel Gil;Manuel Gil;Jean-François Dufayard;Christophe Dessimoz;Christophe Dessimoz

  • Estimating maximum likelihood phylogenies with PhyML.

    Stéphane Guindon;Stéphane Guindon;Frédéric Delsuc;Jean-François Dufayard;Olivier Gascuel

  • NGPhylogeny.fr: new generation phylogenetic services for non-specialists

    Frédéric Lemoine;Damien Correia;Damien Correia;Damien Correia;Vincent Lefort;Olivia Doppelt-Azeroual

  • Renewing Felsenstein’s phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data

    F. Lemoine;Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner;E. Wilkinson;D. Correia

  • Fast and accurate phylogeny reconstruction algorithms based on the minimum-evolution principle.

    Richard Desper;Olivier Gascuel

  • Fast Dating Using Least-Squares Criteria and Algorithms

    Thu Hien To;Matthieu Jung;Samantha Lycett;Olivier Gascuel

  • Neighbor-Joining Revealed

    Olivier Gascuel;Mike Steel

  • Empirical profile mixture models for phylogenetic reconstruction

    Le Si Quang;Olivier Gascuel;Nicolas Lartillot

  • Identification of novel peptide hormones in the human proteome by hidden Markov model screening.

    Olivier Mirabeau;Emerald Perlas;Cinzia Severini;Enrica Audero

  • Theoretical Foundation of the Balanced Minimum Evolution Method of Phylogenetic Inference and Its Relationship to Weighted Least-Squares Tree Fitting

    Richard Desper;Olivier Gascuel

  • Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny

    Olivier Gascuel

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Steel
Mike Steel University of Canterbury
Eric Maréchal
Eric Maréchal Grenoble Alpes University
Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento Cornell University
Tanja Stadler
Tanja Stadler Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Tulio de Oliveira
Tulio de Oliveira University of KwaZulu-Natal
Bernard M. E. Moret
Bernard M. E. Moret École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Cedric Notredame
Cedric Notredame Pompeu Fabra University
Marco Salemi
Marco Salemi University of Florida
Marie-Paule Lefranc
Marie-Paule Lefranc University of Montpellier
Nicolas Galtier
Nicolas Galtier University of Montpellier

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