Background Alignment-free (AF) sequence comparison is attracting persistent interest driven
by data-intensive applications. Hence, many AF procedures have been proposed in recent …

We study the number N k of length-k word matches between pairs of evolutionarily related
DNA sequences, as a function of k. We show that the Jukes-Cantor distance between two …

We study the number Nk of (spaced) word matches between pairs of evolutionarily related
DNA sequences depending on the word length or pattern weight k, respectively. We show that…

Figure S2. Comparison (tanglement) of test tree and reference tree of complete mitochondrial
genomes from 25 labroid fishes. The test tree is inferred by 9 alignment-free programs (…

Traditional methods for phylogeny reconstruction are based on multiple sequence alignments
and character-based methods. This combination of computationally expensive methods …

The lymphatic vasculature is a blind-ended network crucial for tissue-fluid homeostasis,
immune surveillance and lipid absorption from the gut. Recent evidence has proposed an …

The survival of ischaemic cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction (MI) depends on the
formation of new blood vessels. However, endogenous neovascularization is inefficient and …

The impact on body weight development is usually analysed by comparing different diet types.
Our approach was to change only one component, namely bread, common to most diets. …

Myocardial infarction (MI) arising from obstruction of the coronary circulation engenders
massive cardiomyocyte loss and replacement by non-contractile scar tissue, leading to …

Throughout spring and summer 2020, ozone stations in the northern extratropics recorded
unusually low ozone in the free troposphere. From April to August, and from 1 to 8 kilometers …