phyloDB is a modular and extensible framework for large-scale phylogenetic
analyses, which are essential for understanding epidemics evolution. It relies
on the Neo4j graph database for data storage and processing, providing a schema
and an API for representing and querying phylogenetic data. Custom algorithms
are also supported, allowing to perform heavy computations directly over the
data, and to store results in the database. Multiple computation results are
stored as multilayer networks, promoting and facilitating comparative analyses,
as well as avoiding unnecessary ab initio computations. The experimental
evaluation results showcase that phyloDB is efficient and scalable with respect
to both API operations and algorithms execution.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.1336