PhyInformR

This is a walkthrough of PhyInformR broken into three main sections

As we aggregate genome scale sequence datasets, disentangling signal from noise is critical to mitigating erroneous inferences

Investigating 'cold cases' of relationships based on sanger-sequence can also overturn our perception of support for certain classic hypotheses

PhyInformR is designed to help you investigate your data and solve cases of incongruence


Part 1

Installation and Phylogenetic Informativeness Profiles

Learn to install phyinformr and use PI profiles for predicting trends in a dataset

These profiles are of particular relevance for mitigating against homoplasy driven errors in a divergence time studies

Part 2

Quantification of Signal and Noise

Loci vary in information, presenting an informatic problem of how to target loci for analyses to efficiently improve phylogenetic accuracy by minimizing homoplasy

Here we cover methods for disentangling sources of error that HGT, at worst, can yield strong, but erroneous, support for focal nodes

Part 3

Advanced visualizations

The quantitative framework of quartet internode calculations lends itself wonderfully to the development of new ways to visualize information in a given dataset. This section highlights graphics from a few recent publications

We hope users fully harness R's potential for innovative new visualization and develop novel approaches that will enable both scrutiny and discovery of patterns within genome-scale data.


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A pdf of this manual is available. Please note that some advanced features in the web instructions may be missing depending on our update schedule.