Assessment of methods for amino acid matrix selection and their use on empirical data shows that ad hoc assumptions for choice of matrix are not justified

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Keane, Thomas M ^a   Creevey, Christopher J ^b   Pentony, Melissa M ^c   Naughton, Thomas J ^a   McInerney, James O ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Bork Group   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; POL PROTEIN; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RETROVIRUS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; ANIMAL; ARCHAEON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERTEBRATE;

ARCHAEA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; PROTEOBACTERIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 33645816587     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-29     Document Type: Article

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