This one is definitely worth a read for phylogeneticists and phylogenomicists (is that a word?) out there: PLoS Biology: Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough. Philippe et al. discuss some important issues in using genomes to infer phylogenies of species in this commentary/review paper. They discuss in particular some recent studies of animal evolution but they cover a lot of useful ground here and include a good review of terminology and some of the basic issues at play. I am personally going to have to read it in more detail to help deal with some of the issues in our recent study of novel sequences in metagenomic data.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Nice review/commentary on challenges in phylogenomic analysis in PLoS Bio by Philippe et al. #fb
This one is definitely worth a read for phylogeneticists and phylogenomicists (is that a word?) out there: PLoS Biology: Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough. Philippe et al. discuss some important issues in using genomes to infer phylogenies of species in this commentary/review paper. They discuss in particular some recent studies of animal evolution but they cover a lot of useful ground here and include a good review of terminology and some of the basic issues at play. I am personally going to have to read it in more detail to help deal with some of the issues in our recent study of novel sequences in metagenomic data.
