People / Huaiyan Ren

PhD student, Australian National University

Biography

Huaiyan Ren received his Bachelor of Agriculture in Animal Science from China Agricultural University (CAU) in 2018, and Master of Science in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics from Australian National University (ANU) in 2022. Now, he is a PhD student at Australian National University (ANU).

Research Interests

His research interests mainly focus on bioinformatic area, especially on phylogenetic methodology and evolutionary history of real lives. He is currently focusing on phylogenetic models under maximum likelihood methods and testing with empirical datasets.

Publications

1. IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models highly cited
   T.K.F. Wong, N. Ly-Trong, H. Ren, P. Demotte, H. Baños, A. Roger, E. Susko, C. Bielow, N. De Maio, N. Goldman, M.W. Hahn, M.d. Reis, L.S. Vinh, G. Huttley, R. Lanfear, B.Q. Minh
   Molecular Biology and Evolution 43:msag117 (2026)

2. MixtureFinder: Estimating DNA mixture models for phylogenetic analyses
   H. Ren, T.K.F. Wong, B.Q. Minh, R. Lanfear
   Molecular Biology and Evolution 42:msae264 (2025)

3. A New Information Theoretic Approach Shows that Mixture Models Outperform Partitioned Models for Phylogenetic Analyses of Amino Acid Data
   H. Ren, C. Jiang, T.K.F. Wong, Y. Shao, E. Susko, B.Q. Minh, R. Lanfear
   bioRxiv (2026)

4. PartitionFinder-mAIC: Phylogenetic partitioning using marginal akaike information criterion
   H. Ren, T.K.F. Wong, C. Jiang, E. Susko, R. Lanfear, B.Q. Minh
   bioRxiv (2026)

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