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Dr. Ben Stöver

  • Postdoc (Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants Group)
  • IT Administrator (Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants Group)

E-Mail: BenStoever@uni-muenster.de
Phone: +49 251 83-21647
Fax: +49 251 83-24668
Room: 105

Publications

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  • Article in Journal

    Stöver BC, Wiechers S, Müller KF: JPhyloIO: A Java library for event-based reading and writing of different phylogenetic file formats through a common interface. BMC Bioinformatics 2019, 20 (Details)

    Barré P, Stöver BC, Müller KF, Steinhage V: LeafNet: A computer vision system for automatic plant species identification. Ecological Informatics 2017, 40:50-56 (Details)

    Kilian N, Henning T, Plitzner P, Müller A, Güntsch A, Stöver BC, Müller KF, Berendsohn WG, Borsch T: Sample data processing in an additive and reproducible taxonomic workflow by using character data persistently linked to preserved individual specimens. Database 2015, 2015:bav094 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: TreeGraph 2: combining and visualizing evidence from different phylogenetic analyses. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11 (Details)

  • Chapter in Book

    Grimm J, Hoffmann M, Stöver BC, Müller KF, Steinhage V: Image-Based Identification of Plant Species Using a Model-Free Approach and Active Learning. In Friedrich G, Helmert M, Wotawa F: KI 2016: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 2016, Springer International Publishing; 169-176 (Details)

  • Conference abstract/poster

    Stöver BC, Brech P, Wiechers S, Müller KF: Metadata modeling in phylogenetic software to increase data reuse and reproducibility. 1st Münster Evolution Meeting; Münster, Germany; 2018 (Details)

    Plitzner P, Müller A, Güntsch A, Berendsohn WG, Kohlbecker A, Kilian N, Henning T, Stöver BC: The CDM Applied: Unit-Derivation, from Field Observations to DNA Sequences. TDWG 2017 Annual Conference; Ottawa, Canada; 2017 (Details)

    Wiechers S, Müller KF, Stöver BC: Increasing data accessibility and reuse in phylogenetics by employing externally defined ontologies. 6th annual Symposium of the Münster Graduate School of Evolution; Münster, Germany; 2017 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Wiechers S, Müller KF: JPhyloIO - A Java library for event-based reading and writing of different alignment and tree formats through one common interface. European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB); The Hague, The Netherlands; 2016 (Details)

    Wiechers S, Müller KF, Stöver BC: New comparison and annotation methods of the phylogenetic tree editor TreeGraph 2. 5th annual Münster Graduate School of Evolution Symposium; Münster, Germany; 2015 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Wiechers S, Müller KF: Recent development of the phylogenetic tree editor TreeGraph 2. German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB); Dortmund, Germany; 2015 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: LibrAlign - A powerful Java GUI library for MSA and attached raw and meta data. IPAM Multiple Sequence Alignment Workshop; Los Angeles, USA; 2015 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: AlignmentComparator - Comparing and annotating alternative alignments of the same data set. IPAM Multiple Sequence Alignment Workshop; Los Angeles, USA; 2015 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: LibrAlign - A Java library with powerful GUI components for multiple sequence alignment and attached raw and meta data. German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB); Bielefeld, Germany; 2014 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: AlignmentComparator - A GUI application to efficiently visualize and annotate differences between alternative multiple sequence alignments. 4th annual Münster Graduate School of Evolution Symposium; Münster, Germany; 2014 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: LibrAlign - A GUI library for displaying and editing multiple sequence alignments and attached data. BioDivEvo 2014; Dresden, Germany; 2014 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Müller KF: Software in the BioInfWeb project. 2nd annual Münster Graduate School of Evolution Symposium; Münster, Germany; 2012 (Details)

    Stöver BC, Quandt D, Müller KF: Complex mutations and multiple sequence alignment - Example: Hairpin-initiated repeats (HIRs). 2nd annual Münster Graduate School of Evolution Symposium; Münster, Germany; 2012 (Details)

  • Research projects

    • Computer vision
    • DNA sequence alignment for phylogenetic analysis
    • EDIT Campanula Portal
    • Indel evolution
    • Phylogenetic signal in highly variable chloroplast DNA markers
    • Software development
  • Positions

    2018 Scientific assistant (Postdoc) at the Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants group of Prof. Müller (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU)
    2011 - 2018 Scientific assistant (during PhD) at the Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants group of Prof. Müller (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU)
    2010 - 2011 Scientific research assistant at the Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants group of Prof. Müller (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU)
    2009 - 2010 Student research assistant (part time) at the Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants group of Prof. Müller (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU)
    2008 - 2009 Student research assistant (part time) at the Systematics and Evolution group of Kai Müller (Nees Institute, University of Bonn). Task: Development of different phylogenetic Software projects (e.g. TreeGraph 2)
    2006 - 2009 Student research assistant (part time) at the chair of Prof. Bleckmann (Department for comparative Neurobiology, Institute for zoology, University of Bonn). Task: Development of a three dimensional video tracking software for moving fish in the DFG priority program 1207 ("Strömungsbeeinflussung in der Natur und Technik")
  • Education

    2011 - 2018 PhD at the Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants group of Prof. Müller (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, WWU)
    2010 Oral diploma examination in physics (optional subject)
    2010 Award of diploma in Biology (grade 1.0, mark of distinction)
    2009 - 2010 Diploma theses at the Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants group of Prof. Müller (Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster in cooperation with Prof. Quandt (Nees Institute, University of Bonn). Title: "Hair pin initiated repeats"
    2009 Oral diploma examinations in biology (Subjects: botany, neurobiology, informatics)
    2005 Intermediate diploma in biology at the University of Bonn (Subjects: plant physiology, neurobiology, genetics, cell biology, physics, chemistry)
    1995 - 2002 General qualification for university entrance (Abitur), Stiftisches Gymnasium Düren, Specialized courses: Biology, Physics
  • Theses

    • Entwicklung und Implementierung eines Algorithmus zur Lokalisierung von Haarnadel-bedingten Tandem-Wiederholungen (Diploma thesis, finished on Feb 28, 2010)
    • Software Components for increased Data Reuse and Reproducibility in Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics (PhD, finished on Nov 7, 2018)
  • Developed Software

    • bioinfweb.commons.java (http://commons.bioinfweb.info/Java/)
    • JTreeSS (http://bioinfweb.info/JTreeSS/)
    • JPhyloIO (http://bioinfweb.info/JPhyloIO/)
    • TreeGraph 2 (http://treegraph.bioinfweb.info/)
    • PhyDE 2 (http://bioinfweb.info/PhyDE2/)
    • LibrAlign (http://bioinfweb.info/LibrAlign)
    • AlignmentComparator (http://bioinfweb.info/AlignmentComparator)
    • TIC (http://bioinfweb.info/TIC/)
    • LeafNet (http://www.leafnet.pbarre.de/)
    • GraphicMeasurer (http://gm.bioinfweb.info/)
    • HIR Finder
    • EDIT Taxonomic Editor (http://cybertaxonomy.eu/taxeditor/)
  • Other IEB Groups
    • Molecular Evolution & Bioinformatics (Prof. Dr. Erich Bornberg-Bauer)
    • Evolutionary Cell Biology (Dr. Francesco Catania)
    • Limnology (Prof. Dr. Elisabeth I. Meyer)
    • Evolution & Sexual Conflict (Dr. Claudia Fricke)
    • Molecular Evolution & Sociobiology (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau)
    • Animal Evolutionary Ecology (Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz)
    • Plant Adaptation-in-action (Prof. Dr. Shuquing Xu)
  • Teaching and Education
    • Research Training group 2220 EvoPAD
    • Münster Graduate School of Evolution
    • Special Study Program (SSP) - Evolution & Biocomplexity
  • Botanical Garden of the WWU
  • bioinfweb Software Portal
  • Münster Graduate School of Evolution
  • Faculty of Biology at the WWU

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