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- Title
Microbial Phylogenetic Context Using Phylogenetic Outlines.
- Authors
Bagci, Caner; Bryant, David; Cetinkaya, Banu; Huson, Daniel H
- Abstract
Microbial studies typically involve the sequencing and assembly of draft genomes for individual microbes or whole microbiomes. Given a draft genome, one first task is to determine its phylogenetic context, that is, to place it relative to the set of related reference genomes. We provide a new interactive graphical tool that addresses this task using Mash sketches to compare against all bacterial and archaeal representative genomes in the Genome Taxonomy Database taxonomy, all within the framework of SplitsTree5. The phylogenetic context of the query sequences is then displayed as a phylogenetic outline, a new type of phylogenetic network that is more general than a phylogenetic tree, but significantly less complex than other types of phylogenetic networks. We propose to use such networks, rather than trees, to represent phylogenetic context, because they can express uncertainty in the placement of taxa, whereas a tree must always commit to a specific branching pattern. We illustrate the new method using a number of draft genomes of different assembly quality.
- Subjects
BACTERIAL genomes; GENOMES; ARCHAEBACTERIA; TAXONOMY; PHYLOGENY; MICROORGANISMS; DATABASES
- Publication
Genome Biology & Evolution, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
1759-6653
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/gbe/evab213