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	Analisi filogenetica Bayesiana	Analisi Filogenetica
Campo	Bioinformatica	Bioinformatica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1996–2001	1960s-1981 (distance trees ~1967; ML framework formalised 1981)
Ideatore	Rannala & Yang (1996); operationalized by Huelsenbeck et al. (MrBayes, 2001)	Joseph Felsenstein (maximum likelihood framework); Walter Fitch and Emanuel Margoliash (distance methods)
Tipo	Probabilistic inference method	Computational inference method
Fonte seminale	Ronquist, F., & Huelsenbeck, J. P. (2003). MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models. Bioinformatics, 19(12), 1572–1574.	Felsenstein, J. (2004). Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer Associates. ISBN: 978-0878931774
Alias	Bayesian phylogenetics, Bayesian inference of phylogeny, MCMC phylogenetics, Bayesian molecular phylogenetics	molecular phylogenetics, phylogenetic inference, evolutionary tree reconstruction, phylogenomics
Correlati	3	5
Sintesi	Bayesian phylogenetic analysis uses Bayes' theorem and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling to estimate the posterior probability distribution over phylogenetic trees and model parameters given observed sequence data. Unlike bootstrapped maximum-likelihood methods that return a single best tree, Bayesian inference yields a credible set of trees with associated posterior probabilities, providing a principled measure of phylogenetic uncertainty. It is the dominant framework for estimating divergence times and ancestral relationships in molecular evolution.	Phylogenetic analysis reconstructs the evolutionary history of organisms, genes, or proteins by comparing molecular sequence data and estimating the branching tree that best explains observed similarities and differences. Rooted in the work of Felsenstein and colleagues from the 1960s onward, it is a cornerstone technique in evolutionary biology, microbiology, epidemiology, and comparative genomics, supporting tasks from tracing viral outbreak origins to classifying novel species.