dist.dna: Calculate pairwise distances among DNA sequences

dist.dnaR Documentation

Calculate pairwise distances among DNA sequences

Description

Calculate pairwise distances among DNA sequences. The sites with missing characters are excluded.

Usage

dist.dna(sequences, nst = 0)

Arguments

sequences

DNA sequences

nst

substitution model. 0:no model, 1:JC

Details

If nst=0, the distance is equal to the proportion of sites with different nucleotides.

Value

The function returns a distance matrix.

Author(s)

Liang Liu lliu@uga.edu

References

Jukes, TH and Cantor, CR. 1969. Evolution of protein molecules. Pp. 21-123 in H. N. Munro, ed. Mammalian protein metabolism. Academic Press, New York.

See Also

tree.upgma

Examples

data(dat.finch)
dist.dna(dat.finch$seq,nst=1)

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