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PNAS Cover May 2025
PNAS — Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2025
Journal Cover — Vol. 122, No. 19, May 13, 2025
ROADIES was selected as the cover article, reflecting the editorial board's assessment of the paper's significance and broad scientific impact.
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UCSD Today
UCSD Today / UC San Diego News May 2025
A Fully Automated Tool for Species Tree Inference
The official UC San Diego news outlet covered the ROADIES paper, highlighting how the tool democratizes phylogenomics by removing the need for expert manual intervention in species tree inference from raw genome assemblies.
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Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego May 2025
A team of engineers at UC San Diego is making species tree inference fully automated
The Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego featured the ROADIES work in an official post, reaching thousands of followers in the engineering and academic community.
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SciEnMag — Science Magazine May 2025
New Breakthrough: Fully Automated Tool Revolutionizes Species Tree Inference
SciEnMag covered the ROADIES breakthrough, emphasizing how the fully automated pipeline removes longstanding barriers in evolutionary genomics that previously required manual expert curation.
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EurekAlert! — AAAS Science News May 2025
Automated Tool Enables Species Tree Inference from Raw Genome Assemblies
EurekAlert!, operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), distributed a press release on ROADIES — a platform used by thousands of science journalists worldwide.
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