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Biology & Medicine Case Reports 44 7897 074717

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Phylogenetic trees are wont to analyze and visualize evolution. However, trees are often imperfect datatypes when summarizing multiple trees. this is often especially problematic when accommodating for biological phenomena like horizontal gene transfer, incomplete lineage sorting, and hybridization, also as topological conflict between datasets. Additionally, researchers might want to mix information from sets of trees that have partially overlapping taxon sets. to deal with the matter of analyzing sets of trees with conflicting relationships and partially overlapping taxon sets, we introduce methods for aligning, synthesizing and analyzing rooted phylogenetic trees within a graph, called a tree alignment graph (TAG). The TAG are often queried and analyzed to explore uncertainty and conflict. It also can be synthesized to construct trees, presenting an alternate to supertrees approaches. We demonstrate these methods with two empirical datasets. so as to explore uncertainty, we constructed a TAG of the bootstrap trees from the Angiosperm Tree of Life project. Analysis of the resulting graph demonstrates that areas of the dataset that are unresolved in majority-rule consensus tree analyses are often understood in additional detail within the context of a graph structure, using measures incorporating node degree and adjacency support. As an exercise in synthesis (i.e., summarization of a TAG constructed from the alignment trees), we also construct a TAG consisting of the taxonomy and source trees from a recent comprehensive bird study. We synthesized this graph into a tree which will be reconstructed during a repeatable fashion and where the underlying source information are often updated. The methods presented here are tractable for giant scale analyses and function a basis for an alternate to consensus tree and supertree methods. Furthermore, the exploration of those graphs can expose structures and patterns within the dataset that are otherwise difficult to watch .

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