stepH: Step H: Detect and Separate Unalignable Blocks

Description Usage Arguments Value References See Also

View source: R/stepH.R

Description

Dependent on the substitution rate of the genomic region and the taxonomic depth of the study group, not always all accession can be aligned into a single alignment. step H will detect and separate such unalignable alignment blocks.

Usage

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stepH(x, max.mad)

Arguments

x

An object of class megapteraProj.

max.mad

Numeric, giving the treshold value for the assessment of saturation: alignments with a median average distance (MAD) of max.mad or greater will be broken into blocks. The default value of 0.01 has been estimated with simulation by Smith et al. (2009).

Value

None, stepH is called for its side effects.

References

Smith, S. A., J. M. Beaulieu, and M. J. Donoghue. 2009. Mega-phylogeny approach for comparative biology: an alternative to supertree and supermatrix approaches. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:37.

See Also

megapteraProj; stepMAFFT for the preceeding step and supermatrix for the concatenation of loci.


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