Comparison of complex networks and tree-based methods of phylogenetic analysis and proposal of a bootstrap method.

ABSTRACT: Complex networks have been successfully applied to the characterization and modeling of complex systems in several distinct areas of Biological Sciences. Nevertheless, their utilization in phylogenetic analysis still needs to be widely tested, using different molecular data sets and taxonomic groups, and, also, by comparing complex networks approach to current methods in phylogenetic analysis. In this work, we compare all the four main methods of phylogenetic analysis (distance, maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian) with a complex networks method that has been used to provide a phylogenetic classification based on a large number of protein sequences as those related to the chitin metabolic pathway and ATP-synthase subunits. In order to perform a close comparison to these met

SUBMITTER: Goes-Neto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5808311 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature