pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree.
Frederick A. Matsen IVRobin B. KodnerE. Virginia ArmbrustPublished in: BMC Bioinform. (2010)
Keyphrases
- maximum likelihood
- phylogenetic trees
- maximum parsimony
- tree structures
- parameter estimation
- computational biology
- likelihood function
- sequence analysis
- maximum a posteriori
- em algorithm
- hyperparameters
- gene trees
- expectation maximization
- gaussian distribution
- b tree
- tree structure
- evolutionary history
- posterior distribution
- bayesian networks
- genome sequences
- phylogenetic analysis
- hidden markov models
- sequential patterns