Detecting coevolution without phylogenetic trees? Tree-ignorant metrics of coevolution perform as well as tree-aware metrics

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Identifying coevolving positions in protein sequences has myriad applications, ranging from understanding and predicting the structure of single molecules to generating proteome-wide predictions of interactions. Algorithms for detect...

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Main Authors: Huttley Gavin A, Hunter Lawrence, Easton Brett C, Smit Sandra, Caporaso J Gregory, Knight Rob
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-12-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/327