Our work on the Last Universal Common Ancestor is out!! 🧬💻 To improve data reproducibility and accessibility, I have created a GitHub repository that documents the steps you need to follow to reproduce all our timetree inference analyses. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade...

We first parsed and formatted the five pairs of paralogous gene families that were filtered in previous steps of the study and generated a concatenated alignment and a 5-partition alignment. See link for more details on data formatting. (2/n) github.com/sabifo4/LUCA...