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- Title
Inferring Ancient Relationships with Genomic Data: A Commentary on Current Practices.
- Authors
Laumer, Christopher E
- Abstract
Contemporary phylogeneticists enjoy an embarrassment of riches, not only in the volumes of data now available, but also in the diversity of bioinformatic tools for handling these data. Here, I discuss a subset of these tools I consider well-suited to the task of inferring ancient relationships with coding sequence data in particular, encompassing data generation, orthology assignment, alignment and gene tree inference, supermatrix construction, and analysis under the best-fitting models applicable to large-scale datasets. Throughout, I compare and critique methods, considering both their theoretical principles and the details of their implementation, and offering practical tips on usage where appropriate. I also entertain different motivations for analyzing what are almost always originally DNA sequence data as codons, amino acids, and higher-order recodings. Although presented in a linear order, I see value in using the diversity of tools available to us to assess the sensitivity of clades of biological interest to different gene and taxon sets and analytical modes, which can be an indication of the presence of systematic error, of which a few forms remain poorly controlled by even the best available inference methods.
- Subjects
GENE expression; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing; PHYLOGENY; GENOMICS; BIODIVERSITY
- Publication
Integrative & Comparative Biology, 2018, Vol 58, Issue 4, p623
- ISSN
1540-7063
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icb/icy075