SCAMPP+FastTree: improving scalability for likelihood-based phylogenetic placement

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Phylogenetic placement is the problem of placing ‘query’ sequences into an existing tree (called a ‘backbone tree’). One of the most accurate phylogenetic placement methods to date is the maximum likelihood-based method pplacer, using RAxML to estimate numeric parameters on the backbone tree and then adding the given query sequence to the edge that maximizes the probability that the resulting tree generates the query sequence. Unfortunately, this way of running pplacer fails to return valid outputs on many moderately large backbone trees and so is limited to backbone trees with at most ∼10 000 leaves. SCAMPP is a technique to enable pplacer to run on larger backbone trees, which operates by finding a small ‘placement subtree’ specific to each query sequence, withi

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC9933845 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature