Delphy brings scalable near-real-time Bayesian phylogenetics to outbreak response in Nature
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-18
Delphy, a tool led by Patrick Varilly and built with Ben Fry and the Fathom Info team under Pardis Sabeti's lab, has been published in Nature. It brings scalable, near-real-time Bayesian phylogenetics to outbreak response, combining a radically faster inference engine with an intuitive interactive interface for real-time pathogen genome analysis. The paper is open access and the tool is available to try online—a notable advance in computational methods applied to public health.
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