Consensus networks: A method for visualising incompatibilities in collections of trees

Holland, Barbara and Moulton, Vincent ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9371-6435 (2003) Consensus networks: A method for visualising incompatibilities in collections of trees. In: Algorithms in Bioinformatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2812 . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 165-176.

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Abstract

We present a method for summarising collections of phylogenetic trees that extends the notion of consensus trees. Each branch in a phylogenetic tree corresponds to a bipartition or split of the set of taxa labelling its leaves. Given a collection of phylogenetic trees, each labelled by the same set of taxa, all those splits that appear in more than a predefined threshold proportion of the trees are displayed using a median network. The complexity of this network is bounded as a function of the threshold proportion. We demonstrate the method for a collection of 5000 trees resulting from a Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis of 37 mammal mitochondrial genomes, and also for a collection of 80 equally parsimonious trees resulting from a heuristic search on 53 human mitochondrial sequences.

Item Type: Book Section
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Computational biology of RNA (former - to 2018)
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology > Phylogenetics (former - to 2018)
Depositing User: EPrints Services
Date Deposited: 01 Oct 2010 13:42
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2023 00:40
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/3356
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39763-2_13

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