Context

MAB team

My research activities in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are conducted in the Methods and Algorithms for Bioinformatics (MAB) team at the LIRMM lab. My research in the education field is conducted at Polytech Montpellier. Polytech Montpellier

Keywords

Computing education Phylogenomics Consensus Triplets and quartets Networks Statistics Software, Website, Database

Offers

  • no offer currently

Papers / Communications

    2024

    • Comportements des étudiants dans un module hybride en école d'ingénieurs : cours à distance asynchrone et travaux dirigés en présentiel, V. Berry, J. Fortin, C. Pelissier (in preparation for STICEF).  
    • Migrating from Monolithic to Microservice Architecture: a Load Tests Experience Report V. Berry, A. Castelltort, B. Lange, J. Teriihoania, C. Tibermacine, C. Trubiani. (submitted to ICSA'24).  
    • Comparative Genomic and Functional Analyses Unraveled New Insights into the Evolution and Virulence of the Human Pathogen Babesia MO1, Pallavi Singh, Pratap Vydyam, Tiffany Fang, Karel Estrada, Luis Miguel Gonzalez, Ricardo Grande, Madelyn Kumar, Sakshar Chakravarty, Vincent Berry, Vincent Ranwez, Bernard Carcy, Delphine Depoix, Sergio Sánchez, Emmanuel Cornillot, Steven Abel, Loic Ciampossin, Todd Lenz, Omar Harb, Alejandro Sanchez-Flores, Estrella Montero, Karine Le Roch, Stefano Lonardi and Choukri Ben Mamoun (submitted).  

    2023

    • Load Testing a Web App with a Microservice vs Monolithic Architecture: an Experiment Report, V. Berry, A. Castelltort, J. Teriihoania, C. Tibermacine. (preprint)  
    • Tools to facilitate hybrid and remote learning. V. Berry. 3rd DYNAMEID Conference on Teaching Innovation and Distance Learning.  
    • Analyse des traces de consultations des ressources en ligne et de la réalisation des activités dans un module hybride en école d ingénieur, V. Berry, J. Fortin, C. Pelissier Journées d'étude AIPU section France, Perpignan 2023 : L'hybridation des enseignements à l'université, 30-31 mars 2023 Perpignan (France)  

    2022

    • Stop Reinventing the Wheel! Leveraging Community Software in CS Education
      J. Blanchard, J. Hott, R. Carroll, V. Berry, B. Edmison, R. Glassey, O. Karnalim, B. Plancher and S. Russell, ITiCSE-WGR '22: Proc. of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, December 2022 Pages 261-292, doi 10.1145/3571785.3574129.
      The github repo giving details on the tools by category is here.  
    • ShellOnYou: learning by doing Unix command line
      V. Berry, C. Castelltort, C. Pelissier, M. Rousseau, C. Tibermacine, Proc. of the 27th ann. conf. on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), Vol 1, pages 379-385, 2022, doi 10.1145/3502718.3524753
    • Quand collaborer répond à une "urgence" : l'atout d'une structuration Réseau
      M. Rousseau, N. Cherifa Abid, V. Berry, Congrès de l'Association Internationale de Pédagogie Universitaire (AIPU)  

    2021

    • On the inference of complex phylogenetic networks by Markov Chain Monte-Carlo
      C.-E. Rabier, V. Berry, M. Stoltz, J.D. Santos,W. Wang, J.-C. Glaszmann, F. Pardi, C. Scornavacca, PLoS Computational Biology, doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008380  

    2020

    • Scanning Phylogenetic Networks is NP-hard, V. Berry, C. Scornavacca, M. Weller, SOFSEM conf. LNCS, 12011, 519-530, Springer, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38919-2_42  
    • On the inference of complex phylogenetic networks by Markov Chain Monte-Carlo,
      C.-E. Rabier, V. Berry, J.C. Glaszmann, F. Pardi, C. Scornavacca, JOBIM conf. (poster)  

    2018

    • RecPhyloXML - a format for reconciled gene trees
      W. Duchemin, G. Gence, A-M. Arigon Chifolleau, L. Arvestad, M. Bansal, V. Berry, B. Boussau, F. Chevenet, N. Comte, A. A Davín, C. Dessimoz, D. Dylus, D. Hasic, D. Mallo, R. Planel, D. Posada, C. Scornavacca, G. Szollosi, L. Zhang, E. Tannier, V.t Daubin, Bioinformatics, Nov 1;34(21):3646-3652  
    • Three new genome assemblies support a rapid radiation in Musa acuminata (wild banana)
      M. Rouard, G. Droc, G. Martin, J. Sardos, Y. Hueber, V. Guignon, A. Cenci, B. Geigle, M. S Hibbins, N. Yahiaoui, F-C Baurens, V. Berry, M.W. Hahn, A. D'Hont, N. Roux, Genome Biology and Evolution  
    • A geography aware reconciliation method to investigate diversification patterns in host/parasite interactions
      V. Berry, F. Chevenet, J.-P. Doyon, E. Jousselin, Mol. Ecol. Resour., 18(5) pp 1173-1184, doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12897  

    2016

    • Inferring gene duplications, transfers and losses can be done in a discrete framework
      V. Ranwez, S. Scornavacca, J.-P. Doyon, V. Berry, Journal of Mathematical Biology Volume 72, Issue 7, pp 1811-1844  

    2015

    • SylvX: a viewer for phylogenetic tree reconciliations
      F. Chevenet, J.P. Doyon, C. Scornavacca, E. Jousselin, E. Jacox, V. BerryBioinformatics (doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv625)  
    • Maximum Compatible Tree
      V. Berry, in book Encyclopedia of Algorithms, M.-Y. Kao Ed., Springer, version 2  
    • Ancestral gene synteny reconstruction improves extant species scaffolding
      Y. Anselmetti, V. Berry, C. Chauve, A. Chateau, E. Tannier and S. Berard BMC Genomics, 16 Suppl 10:S11, Procs of the 13th Annual Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics.  

    2014

    • Enseignement hybride d'un module d'informatique pour non spécialistes
      V. Berry, P. Gassin, J. Bezeghiche, C. Causse et O. Ducos, Conférence Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication pour l'Enseignement (TICE), pp 32-40  
    • CompPhy - an online collaborative tool for visualizing and managing phylogenies
      N. Fiorini, V. Lefort, F. Chevenet, A.-M. Arigon Chifolleau, V. Berry,  [ Web site free paper online]. Highly accessed paper  
    • Multiple nuclear genes stabilize the phylogenetic backbone of the genus Quercus
      F. Hubert, G.W. Grimm, E. Jousselin, V. Berry, A. Franc, A. Kremer, Systematics and Biodiversity, 12(4), 405-423 [ link and supplementary data ]. Nominated by the journal for the Outstanding Paper Award for 2014.  

    2013

    • Support Measures to Estimate the Reliability of Evolutionary Events Predicted by Reconciliation Methods
      , Nguyen T-H, Ranwez V, Berry V, Scornavacca C, PLoS ONE 8(10): e73667. [ doi]  
    • Genetic structure and evolution of the Leishmania genus in Africa and Eurasia: what does MLSA tell us
      F. El Baidouri, S. Brisse, V. Berry, F. Chevenet, L. Diancourt, F. Pratlong, P. Marty, C. Ravel, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 7(6): e2255. [ doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002255 ]  
    • Reconciliation and local gene tree rearrangement can be of mutual profit.
      T.H. Nguyen, J.-P. Doyon, S. Pointet, A.-M. Arigon Chifolleau, V. Ranwez, V. Berry, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 8:12. DOI: 10.1186/1748-7188-8-12  
    • Amalgamating Source Trees with Different Taxonomic Levels
      V. Berry, O. Bininda-Emonds, C. Semple, Systematic Biology, 62(2):231-49. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys090.  
    • Representing a set of reconciliations in a compact way
      C. Scornavacca, V. Berry, V. Ranwez, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Vol. 11, No. 2, [ DOI: 10.1142/S0219720012500254 ]   

    2012

    • Accounting for gene tree uncertainties improves gene trees and reconciliation inference
      T.H. Nguyen, J.-P. Doyon, S. Pointet, A.-M. Arigon Chifolleau, V. Ranwez, V. Berry, Proc. of the 12th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI'12), LNBI, Springer.  
    • Sequencing of the smallest apicomplexan genome from the human pathogen Babesia Microti
      E. Cornillot, K. Hadj-Kaddour1, A. Dassouli1, B.Noel, V. Ranwez, B. Vacherie, A. Duclos, Y. Augagneur, V. Brès, S. Randazzo1, B. Carcy, S. Delbecq, K. Moubri-Méage1, F. Debierre-Grockiego, H. Shams-Eldin, F. Bringaud, P. Wincker, C.P. Vivarès, R.T. Schwarz, T.P. Schetters, P.J. Krause, A. Gorenflot, V. Berry, V. Barbe, C. Ben Mamoun, Nucleic Acid Research, 40(18), 9102-9114, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks700  
    • Quartets and unrooted phylogenetic networks
      P. Gambette, V. Berry, C. Paul, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 10(4), 1250004 (23 p.) [DOI].  

    2011

    • Models, algorithms, and programs for phylogeny reconciliation
      J.P. Doyon, V. Daubin, V. Ranwez, V. Berry, accepted in Briefings in Bioinformatics,12(5): 392-400. DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbr045  
    • CompPhy a web-based collaborative plaform for phylogenetics
      N. Fiorini, M. Agbessi, A. Bisch, F. Dumond, F. Chevenet, V. Lefort, A.M. Arigon, V. Berry, 12èmes Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (JOBIM), 2011. [ pdf of the poster ]  
    • Building species trees from larger parts of phylogenomic databases
      C. Scornavacca, V. Berry, V. Ranwez, Information and Computation, (209) : pp. 590-605.
      (Completed version of the extended abstract appearing in LATA'09). [ pdf draft | programs ]  

    2010

    • An efficient algorithm for gene/species trees parsimonious reconciliation with losses, duplications and transfers
      J.P. Doyon, C. Scornavacca, K. Gorbunov, G. Szollosi, V. Ranwez, V. Berry, 8th Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG), 2010. [ pdf draft ]  
    • Un algorithme de parcimonie efficace pour la réconciliation d'arbres de gènes/espèces avec pertes, duplications et transferts
      J.P. Doyon, C. Scornavacca, G. Szollosi, V. Ranwez, V. Berry, 11èmes Journées Ouvertes en Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (JOBIM), 2010. [ pdf draft ]  
    • Scriptree: scripting phylogenetic graphics
      F. Chevenet, O. Croce, M. Hebrard, R. Christen, V. Berry, Bioinformatics, 2010. [ Web site | doi]  
    • Most parsimonious reconciliation of gene and species trees with duplications, transfers and losses
      JP Doyon, S. Scornavacca, G. Szollozi, V. Ranwez, V. Berry.  
      Presented at

    2009

    • PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees,
      V. Ranwez, F. Delsuc, N. Clairon, S. Pourali, N. Auberval, S. Diser, V. Berry, BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009, 9:108. [ free pdf | Web site | doi]  (3rd most viewed paper in June 09)  
    • The Structure of Level-k Phylogenetic Networks,
      P. Gambette, V. Berry & C. Paul, 20th Ann. Symp. on Combin. Pattern Matching (CPM), LNCS, 5577, 289-300, Springer.  
    • Computing Galled Networks from Real Data
      D. Huson, R. Rupp, V. Berry, P. Gambette & C. Paul, 17th Ann. Int. Conf. Intel. Syst. for Mol. Biol. (ISMB), to appear in a special issue of Bioinformatics. Implemented in Dendroscope.  
    • From gene trees to species trees through a supertree approach
      C. Scornavacca, V. Berry, V. Ranwez, 3rd Int. Conf. on Lang. and Automata Theor. and Applications (LATA), LNCS, 5457, 702-714. [ pdf | programs ]  
    • Linear time 3-approximation for the MAST problem
      V. Berry, S. Guillemot, F. Nicolas, C. Paul, ACM Transaction on Algorithms (TALG), to appear [ doi ].  
    • Fixed-Parameter Tractability of the Maximum Agreement Supertree Problem
      S. Guillemot, V. Berry, IEEE/ACM Trans. Comp. Biol. and Bioinformatics (TCBB), to appear (journal version of the CPM'07 paper). [ doi | pdf | program used on this site]  
    • On the approximability of the Maximum Agreement SubTree and Maximum Compatible Tree problems
      S. Guillemot, F. Nicolas, V. Berry, C. Paul, Discrete Applied Mathematics, to appear in vol. 157(7), 1555-1570 [ doi ].  

    2008

    • On building and comparing trees - Application to supertrees in phylogenetics
      V. Berry, Habilitation a diriger des recherches, Univ. Montpellier 2 [ pdf | slides ]  
    • PhySIC_IST: cleaning source trees to infer more informative supertrees
      C. Scornavacca, V. Berry, E.J.P. Douzery and V. Ranwez, BMC Bioinformatics, 9:413 [ doi | free access to pdf | software page]  
    • PhySIC_IST: healing source trees to infer healthy supertrees
      C. Scornavacca, V. Berry, E.J.P. Douzery and V. Ranwez, Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE'08) - Bioinformatics for molecular evolution track
      [ talk presenting the Physic_IST method (see paper above)]  
    • Maximum Compatible Tree
      V. Berry, in book Encyclopedia of Algorithms, M.-Y. Kao Ed., Springer, ISBN 978-0-387-30770-1.
      [ bibTex | doi | pdf ]  
    • One fig to bind them all: host conservatism in a fig wasp community unraveled by cospeciation analyses among pollinating and nonpollinating fig wasps
      E. Jousselin, S. van Noort, V. Berry J.-Y. Rasplus, N. Rønsted, J. C. Erasmus and J.M. Greef, Evolution, 62-7: 1777--1797
      [ doi ]  
    • From constrained to unconstrained maximum agreement subtree in linear time.
      V. Berry, Z.S. Peng and H.F. Ting, Algorithmica, 50(3), 369--385, [ bibTex | doi | pdf ]  

    2007

    • Fixed-Parameter Tractability of the Maximum Agreement Supertree Problem
      S. Guillemot, V. Berry, 18th Ann. Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symposium , LNCS 4580, pp. 274-285, (pdf version with proofs).  
    • Finding a largest subset of rooted triples identifying a tree is an NP-hard task
      S. Guillemot, V. Berry, Research report RR-LIRMM num 07010, pdf  
    • PhySIC: a Veto Supertree Method with Desirable Properties.
      V. Ranwez, V. Berry, A. Criscuolo, P.-H. Fabre, S. Guillemot, C. Scornavacca and E.J.P. Douzery, Systematic Biology, 56(5), 293-304, [ pdf | software page ]  
    • Maximum Agreement and Compatible Supertrees.
      V.Berry and F. Nicolas, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 5(3), pp 564-591, [ link | doi ].  

    2006

    • Votez veto pour l'Arbre de la Vie
      V. Berry, V. Ranwez, P.-H. Fabre, E. Douzery, JOBIM, A. Denise, P. Durrens, S. Robin, E. Rocha, A. de Daruvar, A. Groppi, ed., p. 251-263, pdf  
    • Multipolar consensus for phylogenetic trees
      C. Bonnard, V. Berry, N. Lartillot, Systematic Biology, 55(5):837-843, pdf  
    • SDM : A Fast Distance-Based Approach for (Super)Tree Building in Phylogenomics
      A. Criscuolo, V. Berry, E.J.P. Douzery and O. Gascuel, Systematic Biology 55(5):740-755, pdf  
    • Improved parametrized complexity of Maximum Agreement Subtree and Maximum Compatible Tree problems.
      V. Berry and F. Nicolas, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Comp. Biol. and Bioinf., 3(3), 289-302 (tech. rep. version with proofs).  
    • Fast Computation of Supertrees for Compatible Phylogenies with Nested Taxa
      V. Berry, C. Semple, Systematic Biology, 55(2), U108-U126, draft version  

    Prior to 2006

    • On the Approximation of Computing Evolutionary Trees.
      V.Berry, F.Nicolas, S.Guillemot and C.Paul, COCOON'05: 11th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, LNCS n° 3595, pp. 115-125, 2005.  
    • Approximating the Maximum Compatible Tree.
      V.Berry and F. Nicolas, tech. rep. 05019, 2005.  
    • Maximum Agreement and Compatible Supertrees.
      V.Berry and F. Nicolas, 15th Ann. Combinatorial Pattern Matching Symposium (CPM), LNCS 3109, Springer Verlag, 2004. (tech. rep. version with proofs).  
    • A Structured Family of Clustering and Tree Construction Methods.
      D.Bryant and V.Berry Advances in Applied Math, 27, pp 705-732, 2001. [ Implemented in SplitsTree ]  
    • Choosing the tree which actually best explains the data: another look at the bootstrap in phylogenetic reconstruction.
      V. Berry and O. Gascuel, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2000, 38, pp 273-283. draft version (71k)  
    • Inferring Evolutionary Trees with Strong Combinatorial Evidence.
      V. Berry and O. Gascuel, Theoretical Computer Science, 2000, 240(2), pp 271-298. draft version (285k). [ software]  
    • A practical algorithm for recovering the best supported edges of an evolutionary tree.
      V. Berry, D. Bryant, T. Jiang, P. Kearney, M. Li, T. Wareham and H. Zhang, SODA 2000,287-296.
      [ bibTex ]  
    • Faster reliable phylogenetic analysis.
      V. Berry and D. Bryant, RECOMB 99. [ draft ps | Implemented in SplitsTree ]  
    • Quartet Cleaning: Improved Algorithms and Simulations.
      V. Berry, P. Kearney, M. Li, T. Jiang and T. Wareham, ESA 99.  
    • Méthodes et Algorithmes pour reconstruire les arbres de l'Évolution.
      V. Berry, Thèse de doctorat, 1997 (gzipped ps file).  
    • On the interpretation of bootstrap trees: appropriate threshold of clade selection and induced gain.
      V. Berry and O. GascuelMolecular Biology and Evolution, 13(7):999-1011. 1996. draft version (306k).  

    Other documents

    • A short survey on methods for building supertrees, V.Berry, 2003 (sildes .ps.gz).
    • Introduction to the field of phylogenetic reconstruction (in french).

    Previous projects

      2016-2021 Member of the Genome Harvest flagship project, funded by the Agropolis foundation.

      2013-2017   Member of the Institut de Biologie Computationnelle (IBC)

      2011-2018   Member of the NumEv labex. Co-animator of the Algorithms & Computation axis (2014-)

      2013-2017   Member of the ANCESTROME ANR project

      2011-2014   Member of the Phylospace ANR project.

      2010-2013   Principal Investigator of the ATCG research program on reconciliation methods applied to plants, host/parasites and biogeographic data. The project involves, several teams in Montpellier, located at CIRAD, ISEM, BioVersity, SupAgro. The project is funded by the Région Languedoc-Roussillon.

      2009-2012   P.I. of the PhylAriane ANR project, involving the ISEM,LBBE and LIRMM labs.

      2007-2008  Reconstructing the Tree Of Life from large tree databases.

      Funded by the CS of University Montpellier 2.

      2005-2006   Phylogenetics Funded by the BIOSTIC-LR consortium.

      2003-2006   Supertree. Funded by the ACI IMPBIO consortium.