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Build Gene Tree - v1.7.1
By: dylan

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Build Gene Tree for a set of homologously related genes in a FeatureSet

This App allows the user to build a phylogenetic tree of related protein encoding genes using the amino acid sequences.

Running this App is the functional equivalent to running each of the Apps in the Build a Gene Tree Tutorial Narrative, but is invoked as a single App. It includes the same parameters as would be given to each of the steps separately, starting with MUSCLE to build the initial Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA), then Gblocks to trim the MSA to the less variable regions, and finally FastTree-2 to build the phylogenetic inference from the distances between the sequences in the MSA.


MUSCLE performs a Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) of homologously related sequences.

Gblocks trims Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) to capture the conserved blocks that may be more reliable regions from which to compare evolutionary rates, such as for tree building. Gblocks 0.91b from http://molevol.cmima.csic.es/castresana/Gblocks.html

FastTree-2 builds a Phylogenetic Tree reconstruction from a Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) of protein sequences. Tree display uses ETE3 (v3.0.0b35). FastTree2.1.9 from http://www.microbesonline.org/fasttree/


Team members who developed & deployed algorithm in KBase:Dylan Chivian.

Related Publications


App Specification:

https://github.com/kbaseapps/kb_phylogenomics/tree/7a7953cfae374968499ac49d7716ce9bc99b2ca0/ui/narrative/methods/build_gene_tree

Module Commit: 7a7953cfae374968499ac49d7716ce9bc99b2ca0