Structuring
the content of huge, rapidly growing genetic databases of molecular
sequences according to the biological rules of evolution and
phylogenetics, is a major scientific challenge. Phylogenetic
reconstitution is a very difficult algorithmic problem which still
requires fundamental research in computer science. Developments in
other more or less related fields, such as clustering and
classification, are neither entirely applicable in, nor easily adapted
to this fundamental field of bioinformatics. Therefore, we are
developing a radically new approach, Anâtaxis, which avoids the artefacts created by existing methods and will be capable of processing very large amounts of data.
