Ran Libeskind-Hadas's Research

A CV and publications list can be found here.

My research addresses algorithmic issues in computational biology and, in particular, the problem of reconciling pairs of evolutionary trees such as gene trees and species trees and pairs of species trees (e.g., parasites and hosts).

This research has resulted in the several software packages for maximum parsimony reconciliation. The eMPRess tool performs maximum parsimony reconciliation in the duplication-transfer-loss model with novel features that allow the user to visualize the impact of event costs and the potentially large space of optimal reconciliations. The eMPRess software and documentation are freely available. eMPRess is intended to replace our older Jane 4 tool.