Lecture 11 Phylogenetic trees
Lecture 11 Phylogenetic trees
Principles of Computational Biology
Teresa Przytycka, PhD
Phylogenetic (evolutionary) Tree
? showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities that are believed to have a common ancestor.
? Each node is called a taxonomic unit. ? Internal nodes are generally called hypothetical
taxonomic units ? In a phylogenetic tree, each node with
descendants represents the most recent common ancestor of the descendants, and the ? edge lengths (if present) correspond to time estimates.
Methods to construct phylogentic trees
? Parsimony ? Distance matrix based ? Maximum likelihood
Parsimony methods
The preferred evolutionary tree is the one that requires
"the minimum net amount of evolution"
[Edwards and Cavalli-Sforza, 1963]
Assumption of character based parsimony
? Each taxa is described by a set of characters ? Each character can be in one of finite number
of states ? In one step certain changes are allowed in
character states
? Goal: find evolutionary tree that explains the states of the taxa with minimal number of changes
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