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Making A Consensus Phylogenetic Tree

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nainiburman21 ▴ 20

Hi, I want to make consensus tree from trees derived from different phyogenetics method. Can anyone give a detailed protocol to do it please!! regards naini

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 11.6 years ago by Andrzej Zielezinski 11k • written 11.6 years ago by nainiburman21 ▴ 20

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Do not make a consensus tree from different methods. It is not appropriate. You would be comparing apples and oranges.

ADD REPLY • link 11.6 years ago by Zev.Kronenberg 12k

score 5 · Answer 1 · 2012-10-28

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Andrzej Zielezinski 11k

CONSENSE - Consensus tree program from PHYLIP package is exactly what you need.

I also recommend Dendroscope 3.

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From my experience, CONSENSE will work for simple data sets, but it hasn't been maintained in MANY years (I think since 1993? Please correct me if I am wrong here). I prefer using the consensus commands from the python package SumTrees.

ADD REPLY • link 11.5 years ago by Josh Herr 5.8k