node.dating: dating ancestors in phylogenetic trees in R

Phylogenetic trees encode the evolutionary distances between species or populations. With sufficient information, these evolutionary distances can be rescaled over time to provide estimates of the dates of the most recent ancestors of the species. Here we present the R program node.dating, divergenc...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) England), 2017-03, Vol.33 (6), p.932-934
Hauptverfasser:	Jones, Bradley R, Poon, Art F Y
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ancestry Applications Notes bioinformatics computer software Genomics - methods HIV - genetics Humans Likelihood Functions Phylogeny Pongidae Software statistical analysis
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Zusammenfassung:	Phylogenetic trees encode the evolutionary distances between species or populations. With sufficient information, these evolutionary distances can be rescaled over time to provide estimates of the dates of the most recent ancestors of the species. Here we present the R program node.dating, divergence-time analysis software, which uses a maximum-likelihood method to estimate the dates of the internal nodes of a phylogenetic tree. node.dating is available as a part of the R v3.30 package ape v4.0 (cran.r-project.org). node.dating is also available in the GitHub repository: https://github.com/brj1/node.dating , along with supplementary software and tests. brj1@sfu.ca. Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
ISSN:	1367-4803 1460-2059 1367-4811
DOI:	10.1093/bioinformatics/btw744