Publications

  1. Preprints
  2. Robert N. Grass, Reinhard Heckel, Christophe Dessimoz, Wendelin J. Stark
    Genomic encryption of digital data stored in synthetic DNA
    bioRxiv 831883
  3. Stuart Byma, Akash Dhasade, Adrian Altenhoff, Christophe Dessimoz, James R. Larus
    Parallel and Scalable Precise Clustering for Homologous Protein Discovery
    arXiv 1908.10574
  4. Liam P Shaw, Alethea D Wang, David Dylus, Magda Meier, Grega Pogacnik, Christophe Dessimoz, Francois Balloux
    The phylogenetic range of bacterial and viral pathogens of vertebrates
    bioRxiv 670315
  5. Rosa Fernández, Toni Gabaldón, Christophe Dessimoz
    Orthology: definitions, inference, and impact on species phylogeny inference
    arXiv 1903.04530
  6. Brigitte Boeckmann, David Dylus, Sébastien Moretti, Adrian Altenhoff, Clément-Marie Train, Evgenia Kriventseva, Lydie Bougueleret, Ioannis Xenarios, Eyal Privman, Toni Gabaldón, Christophe Dessimoz
    Taxon sampling unequally affects individual nodes in a phylogenetic tree: consequences for model gene tree construction in SwissTree
    bioRxiv 181966
  7. 2020
  8. Samuel Briand, Christophe Dessimoz*, Nadia El-Mabrouk*, Manuel Lafond and Gabriela Lobinska (*joint corresponding authors)
    A Generalized Robinson-Foulds Distance for Labeled Trees
    The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC) 2020 & BMC Genomics, accepted
  9. 2019
  10. Medhat Mahmoud, Nastassia Gobet, Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos, Ninon Mounier, Christophe Dessimoz* and Fritz J. Sedlazeck* (*joint corresponding authors)
    Structural variant calling: the long and the short of it
    Genome Biology, in press
  11. Naihui Zhou et al (223 authors including Adrian Altenhoff, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, and Christophe Dessimoz)
    The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens
    Genome Biology, in press
  12. Ana Claudia Sima, Christophe Dessimoz, Kurt Stockinger, Monique Zahn-Zabal, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias
    A hands-on introduction to querying evolutionary relationships across multiple data sources using SPARQL
    F1000Research 8:1822
  13. Bristena Oprisanu, Christophe Dessimoz, Emiliano De Cristofaro
    How Much Does GenoGuard Really "Guard"? An Empirical Analysis of Long-Term Security for Genomic Data
    Proceedings of the 18th ACM CCS Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2019), arXiv 1908.11315
  14. Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Kurt Stockinger, Christophe Dessimoz
    VoIDext: Vocabulary and patterns for enhancing interoperable datasets with virtual links
    Proceedings of The 18th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE’19), arXiv 1906.01950, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11877. Springer, Cham
  15. Ana Claudia Sima*, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias*, Erich Zbinden, Maria Anisimova, Manuel Gil, Heinz Stockinger, Kurt Stockinger, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Christophe Dessimoz (*co-first)
    Enabling Semantic Queries Across Federated Bioinformatics Databases
    Database, in press Code Website
  16. Adrian M Altenhoff*, Jeremy Levy*, Magdalena Zarowiecki, Bartłomiej Tomiczek, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Daniel A Dalquen, Steven Müller, Maximilian J Telford, Natasha Glover, David Dylus, Christophe Dessimoz (*co-first)
    OMA standalone: orthology inference among public and custom genomes and transcriptomes
    Genome Research, 2019, 29:1152-1163 News item Software
  17. Natasha Glover, Christophe Dessimoz, Ingo Ebersberger, Sofia K Forslund, Toni Gabaldón Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Maria-Jesus Martin, Matthieu Muffato, Mateus Patricio, Cécile Pereira Alan Sousa da Silva, Yan Wang, Erik Sonnhammer, Paul D Thomas, Quest for Orthologs Consortium
    Advances and Applications in the Quest for Orthologs
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2019, 36:10, 2157–2164
  18. Hervé Philippe, Albert J Poustka, Marta Chiodin, Katharina J Hoff, Christophe Dessimoz, Bartlomiej Tomiczek, Philipp H Schiffer, Steven Müller, Daryl Domman, Matthias Horn, Heiner Kuhl, Bernd Timmermann, Noriyuki Satoh, Tomoe Hikosaka-Katayama, Hiroaki Nakano, Matthew L Rowe, Maurice R Elphick, Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Thomas Hankeln, Florian Mertes, Andreas Wallberg, Jonathan P Rast, Richard R Copley, Pedro Martinez, Maximilian J Telford
    Mitigating Anticipated Effects of Systematic Errors Supports Sister-Group Relationship between Xenacoelomorpha and Ambulacraria
    Current Biology, 2019, 29:1–9 PDF
  19. Adrian M Altenhoff*, Natasha M Glover*, Christophe Dessimoz (*co-first)
    Inferring Orthology and Paralogy
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2019, Humana (New York), Vol 1910.
  20. Ana Claudia Sima, Kurt Stockinger, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Manuel Gil
    Semantic Integration and Enrichment of Heterogeneous Biological Databases
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2019, Humana (New York), Vol 1910.
  21. Klara Kaleb, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Adrian Altenhoff, Christophe Dessimoz
    Expanding the Orthologous Matrix (OMA) programmatic interfaces: REST API and the OmaDB packages for R and Python
    F1000 Research, 2019, 8:42
  22. Natasha Glover, Adrian Altenhoff, Christophe Dessimoz
    Assigning confidence scores to homoeologs using fuzzy logic
    PeerJ 6:e6231
  23. Clément-Marie Train, Miguel Pignatelli, Adrian Altenhoff, Christophe Dessimoz
    iHam & pyHam: visualizing and processing hierarchical orthologous groups
    Bioinformatics, 2019, 35:14, 2504–2506 Code iHam Code pyHam
  24. Ivana Piližota, Clément-Marie Train, Adrian Altenhoff, Henning Redestig, Christophe Dessimoz
    Phylogenetic approaches to identifying fragments of the same gene, with application to the wheat genome
    Bioinformatics, 2019, 35:7, 1159–1166 Software
  25. 2018
  26. Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Christophe Dessimoz*, Henning Redestig* (*co-last)
    Prioritising Candidate Genes Causing QTL using Hierarchical Orthologous Groups
    Bioinformatics, 2018, 34:17, pp. i612–i619 (ECCB 2018 proceedings) Story behind the paper Software
  27. DV Klopfenstein, Liangsheng Zhang, Brent Pedersen, Fidel Ramírez, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Aurelien Naldi, Christopher Mungall, Jeffrey Yunes, Olga Botvinnik, Mark Weigel, William Dampier, Christophe Dessimoz, Patrick Flick, Haibao Tang
    GOATOOLS: A Python library for Gene Ontology analyses
    Scientific Reports, 2018, 8:10872
  28. Wandrille Duchemin, Guillaume Gence, Anne-Muriel Arigon Chifolleau, Lars Arvestad, Mukul S Bansal, Vincent Berry, Bastien Boussau, François Chevenet, Nicolas Comte, Adrián A Davín, Christophe Dessimoz, David Dylus, Damir Hasic, Diego Mallo, Rémi Planel, David Posada, Celine Scornavacca, Gergely Szöllősi, Louxin Zhang, Éric Tannier, Vincent Daubin
    RecPhyloXML: a format for reconciled gene trees
    Bioinformatics, 2018, 34:21, 3646–3652
  29. Daniel Mietchen, Shoshana Wodak, Szymon Wasik, Natalia Szostak, Christophe Dessimoz
    Submit a Topic Page to PLOS Computational Biology and Wikipedia
    PLoS Comput Biol, 2018, 14(5): e1006137
  30. Adrian M Altenhoff, Natasha M Glover, Clément-Marie Train, Klara Kaleb, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, David Dylus, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Karina Zile, Charles Stevenson, Jiao Long, Henning Redestig, Gaston H Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz
    The OMA orthology database in 2018: retrieving evolutionary relationships among all domains of life through richer web and programmatic interfaces
    Nucleic Acids Res, 2018, 46, pp. D477–D485
  31. Kristoffer Forslund, Cecile Pereira, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Alan Sousa da Silva, Adrian Altenhoff, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Matthieu Muffato, Mateus Patricio, Klaas Vandepoele, Ingo Ebersberger, Judith Blake, Jesualdo Tomás Fernández Breis, the Quest for Orthologs Consortium, Brigitte Boeckmann, Toni Gabaldón, Erik Sonnhammer, Christophe Dessimoz*, Suzanna Lewis* (*co-last)
    Gearing up to handle the mosaic nature of life in the quest for orthologs
    Bioinformatics, 2018, 34:2, pp. 323–329 PDF
  32. 2017
  33. Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Hirokazu Chiba, Jesualdo T. Fernández-Breis
    Leveraging logical rules for efficacious representation of large orthology datasets
    Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2017) PDF
  34. Tomasz Suchan, Anahí Espíndola, Sereina Rutschmann, Brent C. Emerson, Kevin Gori, Christophe Dessimoz, Nils Arrigo, Michał Ronikier, Nadir Alvarez
    Assessing the potential of RAD-sequencing to resolve phylogenetic relationships within species radiations: The fly genus Chiastocheta (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) as a case study
    Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2017, 114:189-198 PDF Typeset version
  35. Clément-Marie Train, Natasha M Glover, Gaston H Gonnet, Adrian M Altenhoff and Christophe Dessimoz
    Orthologous matrix (OMA) algorithm 2.0: more robust to asymmetric evolutionary rates and more scalable hierarchical orthologous group inference
    Bioinformatics, 2017, i1-i8 (ISMB 2017 proceedings)
  36. Georgia Tsagkogeorga, Steven Müller, Christophe Dessimoz, Stephen J. Rossiter
    Comparative genomics reveals contraction in olfactory receptor genes in bats
    Scientific Reports, 2017, 7:259
  37. Daniel C Jeffares, Clemency Jolly, Mimoza Hoti, Doug Speed, Charalampos Rallis, Christophe Dessimoz*, Jürg Bähler*, Fritz Sedlazeck* (*joint corresponding)
    Transient structural variations alter gene expression and quantitative traits in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
    Nature Communications, 2017, 8:14061 Story behind the paper
  38. Pascale Gaudet, Nives Škunca, James C. Hu, Christophe Dessimoz
    Primer on the Gene Ontology
    The Gene Ontology Handbook (C Dessimoz, N Škunca, Eds.),
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017, Springer (New York), Vol. 1446
  39. Pascale Gaudet and Christophe Dessimoz
    Gene Ontology: pitfalls, biases, remedies
    The Gene Ontology Handbook (C Dessimoz, N Škunca, Eds.),
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017, Springer (New York), Vol. 1446
  40. Alex Warwick Vesztrocy and Christophe Dessimoz
    Gene Ontology tutorial in Python
    The Gene Ontology Handbook (C Dessimoz, N Škunca, Eds.),
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017, Springer (New York), Vol. 1446
  41. Christophe Dessimoz and Nives Škunca, Editors
    The Gene Ontology Handbook
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017, Springer (New York), Vol. 1446
  42. 2016
  43. Yuxiang Jiang et al (147 authors including Adrian Altenhoff, Nives Škunca and Christophe Dessimoz)
    An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy
    Genome Biology, 2016, 17:184
  44. Sojo Victor, Christophe Dessimoz, Andrew Pomiankowski and Nick Lane
    Membrane proteins are dramatically less conserved than water-soluble proteins across the tree of life
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, advanced access Supplementary data
  45. Natasha M Glover, Ioanna Antoniadi, Gavin M. George, Lars Götzenberger, Ruben Gutzat, Kadri Koorem, Pierre Liancourt, Kinga Rutowicz, Krishna Saharan, Wanhui You and Philipp Mayer
    A Pragmatic Approach to Getting Published: 35 Tips for Early Career Researchers
    Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016, 7:610
  46. Oscar Robinson*, David Dylus*, Christophe Dessimoz (*equal contributions)
    Phylo.io: interactive viewing and comparison of large phylogenetic trees on the web
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2016, 33:8, 2163-2166 Project page Git repo Story behind the paper Demo video
  47. Fabian Zimmer, Peter W Harrison, Christophe Dessimoz, Judith Mank
    Compensation of dosage-sensitive genes on the chicken Z chromosome
    Genome Biology and Evolution, 2016, 8:4, 1233-1242
  48. Adrian Altenhoff, (25 co-authors including Daniel A. Dalquen and Clément-Marie Train), Christophe Dessimoz
    Standardized benchmarking in the quest for orthologs
    Nature Methods, 2016, 13, 425–430 Story behind the paper Project page
  49. Natasha M Glover, Henning Redestig, Christophe Dessimoz
    Homoeologs: what are they and how do we infer them?
    Trends in Plant Science, 2016, 21, 609–621 Story behind the paper
  50. Kevin Gori, Tomasz Suchan, Nadir Alvarez, Nick Goldman, Christophe Dessimoz
    Clustering genes of common evolutionary history
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2016, 33:6, 1590-1605 Git repo Raw data Blog post
  51. 2015
  52. Ge Tan, Matthieu Muffato, Christian Ledergerber, Javier Herrero, Nick Goldman, Manuel Gil, Christophe Dessimoz
    Current methods for automated filtering of multiple sequence alignments frequently worsen single-gene phylogenetic inference
    Systematic Biology, 2015, 64:5, 778-791 Supplementary data Story behind the paper
  53. Matt Ravenhall*, Nives Škunca*, Florent Lasalle, Christophe Dessimoz (*equal contributions)
    Inferring horizontal gene transfer
    PLOS Computational Biology, 2015, 11:5, e1004095 On Wikipedia Story behind the paper
  54. Bernhard Egger*, François Lapraz*, Bartłomiej Tomiczek*, Steven Müller, Christophe Dessimoz, Johannes Girstmair, Nives Škunca, Kate A Rawlinson, Christopher B Cameron, Elena Beli, M Antonio Todaro, Mehrez Gammoudi, Carolina Noreña, Maximilian J Telford (*co-first)
    A transcriptomic-phylogenomic analysis of the evolutionary relationships of flatworms
    Current Biology, 2015, 25:10, 1347–1353
  55. Nives Škunca and Christophe Dessimoz
    Phylogenetic profiling: how much input data is enough?
    PLOS One, 2015, 10:2, e0114701
  56. Ge Tan, Manuel Gil, Ari P Löytynoja, Nick Goldman, Christophe Dessimoz
    Simple chained guide trees give poorer multiple sequence alignments than inferred trees in simulation and phylogenetic benchmarks
    PNAS, 2015, 112:2, E99-E100 Preprint Raw data
  57. Adrian M Altenhoff, Nives Škunca, Natasha Glover, Clément-Marie Train, Anna Sueki, Ivana Piližota, Kevin Gori, Bartlomiej Tomiczek, Steven Müller, Henning Redestig, Gaston H Gonnet and Christophe Dessimoz
    The OMA orthology database in 2015: function predictions, better plant support, synteny view, and other improvements
    Nucleic Acids Res, 2015, 43:D1, D240-D249 Project page
  58. 2014
  59. Xinxia Peng et al. (38 authors including Kevin Gori, Nives Škunca, and Christophe Dessimoz)
    The draft genome sequence of the ferret (Mustela putorius furo) facilitates study of human respiratory disease
    Nature Biotechnology, 2014, 32:12, 1250-1255
  60. Lucas D Wittwer*, Ivana Piližota*, Adrian M Altenhoff, Christophe Dessimoz (*equal contributions)
    Speeding up all-against-all protein comparisons while maintaining sensitivity by considering subsequence-level homology
    PeerJ, 2014, 2:e607 Story behind the paper
  61. Erik Sonnhammer, Toni Gabaldón, Alan WS da Silva, Maria Martin, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Brigitte Boeckmann, Paul Thomas, Christophe Dessimoz, and the Quest for Orthologs consortium
    Big data and other challenges in the quest for orthologs
    Bioinformatics, 2014, 30:21, 2993-2998
  62. Maria Anisimova and Christophe Dessimoz
    Preface of Proceedings of GNOME 2014 -- Festschrift for Gaston Gonnet
    PeerJ PrePrints, 2014, 2:e426v1 GNOME 2014 Festschrift
  63. Diana Coman, Adrian M Altenhoff, Stefan Zoller, Wilhelm Gruissem and Eva Vranová
    Distinct evolutionary strategies in the GGPPS family from plants
    Frontiers in Plant Science, 2014, 5:230
  64. Heinz Stockinger, Adrian M Altenhoff, Arnold K, Konstantin Arnold, Amos Bairoch, Frederic Bastian, Sven Bergmann, et al.
    Fifteen years SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: life science databases, tools and support
    Nucleic Acids Res, 2014, 42(W1): W436-W441
  65. Stefano Iantorno*, Kevin Gori*, Nick Goldman, Manuel Gil, Christophe Dessimoz (*equal contributions)
    Who watches the watchmen? an appraisal of benchmarks for multiple sequence alignment
    Multiple Sequence Alignment Methods (D Russell, Editor),
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2014, Springer Humana, Vol. 1079. Preprint
  66. 2013
  67. Christophe Dessimoz, Nives Škunca, Paul D. Thomas
    CAFA and the open world of protein function predictions
    Trends in Genetics, 2013, 29:11, 609-610
  68. Ajay Prasad, Suchitra Suresh Kumar, Christophe Dessimoz, Vincent Jaquet, Stefan Bleuler, Oliver Laule, Tomas Hruz, Wilhelm Gruissem, Philip Zimmermann
    Global regulatory architecture of human, mouse and rat tissue transcriptomes
    BMC Genomics, 2013, 14:716
  69. Daniel A. Dalquen and Christophe Dessimoz
    Bidirectional best hits miss many orthologs in duplication-rich clades such as plants and animals
    Genome Biology and Evolution, 2013, 5:10, 1800-1806
  70. Daniel A. Dalquen, Adrian M Altenhoff, Gaston H. Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz
    The impact of gene duplication, insertion, deletion, lateral gene transfer and sequencing error on orthology inference: a simulation study
    PLoS One, 2013, 8:2, e56925 Datasets
  71. Nick Goldman, Paul Bertone, Siyuan Chen, Christophe Dessimoz, Emily M. LeProust, Botond Sipos, Ewan Birney
    Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA
    Nature, 2013, 494:7435, 77-80 Media coverage Full text (PMC)
  72. Adrian M Altenhoff, Manuel Gil, Gaston H. Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz
    Inferring hierarchical orthologous groups from orthologous gene pairs
    PLoS One, 2013, 8:1, e53786 Software
  73. Mikael Sunnåker, Alberto G Busetto*, Elina Numminen*, Jukka Corander, Matthieu Foll, Christophe Dessimoz (*equal contributions)
    Approximate Bayesian computation
    PLoS Computational Biology, 2013, 9:1, e1002803 On Wikipedia Story behind the paper
  74. 2012
  75. Nives Škunca, Adrian M Altenhoff, Christophe Dessimoz
    Quality of computationally inferred gene ontology annotations
    PLoS Computational Biology, 2012, 8:5, e1002533 Interactive plots Story behind the paper
  76. Adrian M Altenhoff, Romain Studer, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Christophe Dessimoz
    Resolving the ortholog conjecture: orthologs tend to be weakly, but significantly, more similar in function than paralogs
    PLoS Computational Biology, 2012, 8:5, e1002514 Press release Story behind the paper
  77. Christophe Dessimoz, Toni Gabaldón, David S Roos, Erik LL Sonnhammer, Javier Herrero, and the Quest for Orthologs Consortium
    Toward community standards in the quest for orthologs
    Bioinformatics, 2012, 28:6, 900-904
  78. Adrian M Altenhoff and Christophe Dessimoz
    Inferring Orthology and Paralogy
    Evolutionary Genomics: Statistical and Computational methods (M Anisimova, Editor),
    Methods in Molecular Biology, 2012, Springer Humana, Vol. 855. PDF
  79. Daniel A. Dalquen, Maria Anisimova, Gaston H. Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz
    ALF - A Simulation Framework for Genome Evolution
    Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2012, 29:4, 1115-1123
  80. 2011
  81. Christophe Dessimoz
    Editorial: Orthology and Applications
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2011, 12:5, 375-376 PDF Special Issue
  82. Christophe Dessimoz, Stefan Zoller, Tereza Manousaki, Huan Qiu, Axel Meyer, Shigehiro Kuraku
    Comparative genomics approach to detecting split coding regions in a low-coverage genome: lessons from the chimaera Callorhinchus milii (Holocephali, Chondrichthyes)
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2011, 12:5, 423-435 Software
  83. Brigitte Boeckmann, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Ioannis Xenarios, Christophe Dessimoz
    Conceptual Framework and Pilot Study to Benchmark Phylogenomic Databases Based on Reference Gene Trees
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2011, 12:5, 474-484
  84. Maria Anisimova, Manuel Gil, Jean-François Dufayard, Christophe Dessimoz, Olivier Gascuel
    Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes.
    Systematic Biology, 2011, 60:5, 685-699
  85. Judith Owiti, Jonas Grossmann, Peter Gehrig, Christophe Dessimoz, Christophe Laloi, Maria Ben Hansen, Wilhelm Gruissem, Hervé Vanderschuren
    iTRAQ-based analysis of changes in the cassava root proteome reveals pathways associated with post-harvest physiological deterioration
    The Plant Journal, 2011, 67:1, 145-156
  86. Louis du Plessis, Nives Škunca, Christophe Dessimoz
    The What, Where, How, and Why of Gene Ontology -- A Primer for Bioinformaticians
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2011, 12:6, 723-735
  87. Christian Ledergerber and Christophe Dessimoz
    Base-Calling for Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms
    Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2011, 12:5, 489-497
  88. Adrian M Altenhoff, Adrian Schneider, Gaston H. Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz
    OMA 2011: Orthology Inference Among 1,000 Complete Genomes
    Nucleic Acids Res, 2011, 39 (suppl 1): D289-D294 Project page
  89. 2010
  90. Christophe Dessimoz* and Manuel Gil* (*equal contributions)
    Phylogenetic assessment of alignments reveals neglected tree signal in gaps
    Genome Biology, 2010, 11:R37 Raw data
  91. 2009
  92. Toni Gabaldón, Christophe Dessimoz, Julie Huxley-Jones, Albert J Vilella, Erik LL Sonnhammer, Suzanna Lewis
    Joining forces in the quest for orthologs
    Genome Biology 2009, 10:403
  93. Alexandre Gattiker, Christophe Dessimoz, Adrian Schneider, Ioannis Xenarios, Marco Pagni, Jacques Rougemont
    The Microbe Browser for Comparative Genomics
    Nucleic Acids Res, 2009, 37 (suppl 2): W296-W299. Project page
  94. Adrian M Altenhoff and Christophe Dessimoz
    Phylogenetic and Functional Assessment of Orthologs Inference Projects and Methods
    PLoS Computational Biology, 2009, 5:1, e1000262
  95. 2008
  96. Alexander Roth, Gaston H. Gonnet, Christophe Dessimoz
    Algorithm of OMA for Large-Scale Orthology Inference
    BMC Bioinformatics, 2008, 9:518
    (Please note the associated erratum)
    Project page
  97. Mark T. Holder, Derrick J. Zwickl, Christophe Dessimoz
    Evaluating the Robustness of Phylogenetic Methods to Among-Site Variability in Substitution Processes
    Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 2008, 363:1512, 4013-4021
  98. Adam M Szalkowski, Christian Ledergerber, Philipp Krähenbühl, Christophe Dessimoz
    SWPS3 - Fast Multi-Threaded Vectorized Smith-Waterman for IBM Cell/B.E. and x86/SSE2
    BMC Research Notes, 2008, 1:107 Project page
  99. Christophe Dessimoz* and Manuel Gil* (*equal contributions)
    Covariance of Maximum Likelihood Evolutionary Distances between Sequences Aligned Pairwise
    BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008, 8:179
  100. Christophe Dessimoz, Daniel Margadant, Gaston H. Gonnet
    DLIGHT - Lateral Gene Transfer Detection Using Pairwise Evolutionary Distances in a Statistical Framework
    RECOMB 2008, LNCS 4955, 315-330 PDF
  101. 2007
  102. Christian Ledergerber and Christophe Dessimoz
    Alignments with Non-overlapping Moves, Inversions and Tandem Duplications in O(n4) time
    COCOON 2007, LNCS 4598, 151-164 PDF Abstract
    selected for publication in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2008, 16:3 PDF
  103. Adrian Schneider, Christophe Dessimoz, Gaston H. Gonnet
    OMA Browser - Exploring orthologous relations across 352 complete genomes
    Bioinformatics, 2007, 23:16, 2180-2182 Project page
  104. 2006
  105. Christophe Dessimoz, Manuel Gil, Adrian Schneider, Gaston H. Gonnet
    Fast Estimation of the Difference between two PAM/JTT Evolutionary Distances in Triplets of Homologous Sequences
    BMC Bioinformatics, 2006, 7:529
  106. Christophe Dessimoz, Brigitte Boeckmann, Alexander Roth, Gaston H. Gonnet
    Detecting Non-Orthology in the COGs Database and Other Approaches Grouping Orthologs Using Genome-Specific Best Hits
    Nucleic Acids Res, 2006 34:11, 3309-3316
  107. 2005
  108. Manuel Gil, Christophe Dessimoz, Gaston H. Gonnet
    A Dimensionless Fit Measure for Phylogenetic Distance Trees
    J Bioinform Comput Biol, 2005, 3:6, 1429-1440
  109. Christophe Dessimoz, Gina Cannarozzi, Manuel Gil, Daniel Margadant, Alexander Roth, Adrian Schneider, Gaston H. Gonnet
    OMA, a Comprehensive, Automated Project for the Identification of Orthologs from Complete Genome Data: Introduction and First Achievements
    RECOMB 2005 Workshop on Comparative Genomics, LNCS 3678, 61-72 PDF Project page