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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2017

Solving the master equation for Indels.

Ian H Holmes

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ian H HolmesDept of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, USA. ihh@berkeley.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7639-5369

Funding

Web-based visualization of coronavirus genomes and proteinsR01HG004483 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Ian H Holmes · 2007 to 2026
$9.3M
Developing the JBrowse Genome Browser to Visualize Structural Variants and Cancer Genomics DataU24CA220441 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI HOLMES, IAN H, STEIN, LINCOLN D. · 2017 to 2020
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA220441NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG004483
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDespite the long-anticipated possibility of putting sequence alignment on the same footing as statistical phylogenetics, theorists have struggled to develop time-dependent evolutionary models for indels that are as tractable as the analogous models for substitution events. MAIN TEXT: This paper discusses progress in the area of insertion-deletion models, in view of recent work by Ezawa (BMC Bioinformatics 17:304, 2016); (BMC Bioinformatics 17:397, 2016); (BMC Bioinformatics 17:457, 2016) on the calculation of time-dependent gap length distributions in pairwise alignments, and current approaches for extending these approaches from ancestor-descendant pairs to phylogenetic trees.

conclusionsWhile approximations that use finite-state machines (Pair HMMs and transducers) currently represent the most practical approach to problems such as sequence alignment and phylogeny, more rigorous approaches that work directly with the matrix exponential of the underlying continuous-time Markov chain also show promise, especially in view of recent advances.

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Models, TheoreticalAlgorithmsComputer SimulationINDEL MutationMarkov ChainsMonte Carlo MethodPhylogenySequence AlignmentAlignmentIndelsPhylogenetics

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PMID28494756
PMCPMC5427538

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