Solving the master equation for Indels
Background Despite 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...
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| Vydáno v: | BMC bioinformatics Ročník 18; číslo 1; s. 255 - 10 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London
BioMed Central
12.05.2017
Springer Nature B.V BMC |
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| ISSN: | 1471-2105, 1471-2105 |
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Despite 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.
Conclusions
While 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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| Bibliografie: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 ObjectType-Editorial-2 ObjectType-Commentary-1 |
| ISSN: | 1471-2105 1471-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12859-017-1665-1 |