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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2021

MSCquartets 1.0: quartet methods for species trees and networks under the multispecies coalescent model in R.

John A Rhodes, Hector Baños, Jonathan D Mitchell, Elizabeth S Allman

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

John A RhodesDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6660, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9921-1091
Hector BañosSchool of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160, USA.
Jonathan D MitchellDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6660, USA.
Elizabeth S AllmanDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6660, USA.
University of Alaska Fairbanks · USCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRGeorgia Institute of Technology · US

Funding

The Administrative CoreP20GM103395 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI BRIAN M BARNES · 2012 to 2026
$66.1M
Mathematical and computational analysis for species tree inferenceR01GM117590 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS · PI RHODES, JOHN · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103395NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryMSCquartets is an R package for species tree hypothesis testing, inference of species trees and inference of species networks under the Multispecies Coalescent model of incomplete lineage sorting and its network analog. Input for these analyses are collections of metric or topological locus trees which are then summarized by the quartets displayed on them. Results of hypothesis tests at user-supplied levels are displayed in a simplex plot by color-coded points. The package implements the QDC and WQDC algorithms for topological and metric species tree inference, and the NANUQ algorithm for level-1 topological species network inference, all of which give statistically consistent estimators under the model. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: MSCquartets is available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MSCquartets.

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PMCPMC8289379
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