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	Analisi Filogenetica	Allineamento di Sequenze
Campo	Bioinformatica	Bioinformatica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1960s-1981 (distance trees ~1967; ML framework formalised 1981)	1970 (global alignment); 1981 (local alignment)
Ideatore	Joseph Felsenstein (maximum likelihood framework); Walter Fitch and Emanuel Margoliash (distance methods)	Saul B. Needleman & Christian D. Wunsch (global); Temple F. Smith & Michael S. Waterman (local)
Tipo	Computational inference method	Computational sequence analysis technique
Fonte seminale	Felsenstein, J. (2004). Inferring Phylogenies. Sinauer Associates. ISBN: 978-0878931774	Needleman, S. B., & Wunsch, C. D. (1970). A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology, 48(3), 443–453.
Alias	molecular phylogenetics, phylogenetic inference, evolutionary tree reconstruction, phylogenomics	pairwise alignment, multiple sequence alignment, MSA, sequence comparison
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	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.	Sequence alignment is a foundational bioinformatics technique that arranges two or more DNA, RNA, or protein sequences to reveal regions of similarity, infer evolutionary relationships, identify functional domains, and map sequencing reads to reference genomes. It underpins virtually every downstream genomic analysis, from variant calling and gene expression quantification to phylogenetics and structural annotation.