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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2016

Phylogenetic tree construction using trinucleotide usage profile (TUP).

Si Chen, Lih-Yuan Deng, Dale Bowman, Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau, Tit-Yee Wong, Behrouz Madahian, Henry Horng-Shing Lu

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Si ChenKey Laboratory of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Drug Discovery Ministry of Education and School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Lih-Yuan DengDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
Dale BowmanDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
Jyh-Jen Horng ShiauInstitute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Tit-Yee WongDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
Behrouz MadahianDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA.
Henry Horng-Shing LuInstitute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. hslu@stat.nctu.edu.tw.

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backgroundIt has been a challenging task to build a genome-wide phylogenetic tree for a large group of species containing a large number of genes with long nucleotides sequences. The most popular method, called feature frequency profile (FFP-k), finds the frequency distribution for all words of certain length k over the whole genome sequence using (overlapping) windows of the same length. For a satisfactory result, the recommended word length (k) ranges from 6 to 15 and it may not be a multiple of 3 (codon length). The total number of possible words needed for FFP-k can range from 4

resultsWe propose a simple improvement over the popular FFP method using only a typical word length of 3. A new method, called Trinucleotide Usage Profile (TUP), is proposed based only on the (relative) frequency distribution using non-overlapping windows of length 3. The total number of possible words needed for TUP is 4

conclusionsCompared to the FFP method, our empirical study showed that the proposed TUP method is more capable of building phylogenetic trees with a stronger biological support. We further provide some justifications on this from the information theory viewpoint. Unlike the FFP method, the TUP method takes the advantage that the starting of the first reading frame is (usually) known. Without this information, the FFP method could only rely on the frequency distribution of overlapping words, which is the average (or mixture) of the frequency distributions of three possible reading frames. Consequently, we show (from the entropy viewpoint) that the FFP procedure could dilute important gene information and therefore provides less accurate classification.

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AlgorithmsPhylogenyReading FramesBacteriaCodonComputational BiologyCodonFeature frequency profile (FFP)Phylogenetic tree constructionReading frameSummary statisticsTree comparison

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