ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2022
Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Rapid phylogenomic analysis for viral surveillance and metagenomic profiling with Omni2Tree.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling.Nature medicine · 2026Review
- Impact of timely vaccination and genomic surveillance on controlling consecutive waves of SARS-CoV-2 variants.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Toward AI foundation models for epidemics: Promise, challenges, and paths forward.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- VINE: Variational inference for scalable Bayesian reconstruction of species and cell-lineage phylogenies.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Optimizing genomic sampling for demographic and epidemiological inference with Markov decision processes.Genetics · 2026Article
- ViMOP: a user-friendly and field-applicable pipeline for untargeted viral genome nanopore sequencing.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Ethical considerations and the social context of HIV phylogenetic research in uMkhanyakude district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Southern African journal of HIV medicine · 2026Article
- Viral emergence and pandemic preparedness in a One Health framework.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Integrated Genomic and Epidemiological Surveillance to Monitor SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Italy: Insights From the JN.1 Case Study (2023-2024).Journal of medical virology · 2026Article
- Phylodynamic analysis reveals disparate transmission dynamics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineages in Botswana.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- ARTreeFormer: A faster attention-based autoregressive model for phylogenetic inference.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- On campus dormitories as viral transmission sinks: Phylodynamic insights into student housing networks during the COVID-19 pandemic.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
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Abstract
Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding of the impact of the pandemic and to the design of effective control strategies. Phylogenies (evolutionary trees) have provided key insights into the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 and enabled investigation of individual outbreaks and transmission chains in specific settings. Phylodynamic approaches combine evolutionary, demographic and epidemiological concepts and have helped track virus genetic changes, identify emerging variants and inform public health strategy. Here, we review and synthesize studies that illustrate how phylogenetic and phylodynamic techniques were applied during the first year of the pandemic, and summarize their contributions to our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and control.
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