Emphasis on the deep or shallow parts of the tree provides a new characterization of phylogenetic distances
Abstract Background Phylogenetically informed distances are commonly used in the analysis of microbiome data, and analysts have many options to choose from. Although all phylogenetic distances share the goal of incorporating the phylogenetic relationships among the bacteria, they do so in different...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Genome Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-019-1735-y |