These differences can be caused by a variety of factors, including incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), gene duplication and loss (GDL), and horizontal gene transfer (HGT). The estimation of species trees is a basic step in biological discovery, but it is challenged by gene tree heterogeneity (i.e., when there is a difference between the evolutionary trees of genes and species). (2014), and find that DISCO provides better accuracy, most likely as a result of covering more of the gene family tree leafset in the output decomposition. We also compare results using MI, an alternative decomposition strategy from Yang Y. We evaluate DISCO paired with different methods for estimating species trees from single copy genes (e.g., ASTRAL, ASTRID, and IQ-TREE) under a wide range of model conditions, and establish that high accuracy can be obtained even when ASTRAL-Pro is not able to correctly roots and tags the gene family trees. We prove that using DISCO with ASTRAL (i.e., ASTRAL-DISCO) is statistically consistent under the GDL model, provided that ASTRAL-Pro correctly roots and tags each gene family tree. We introduce a new approach, DISCO, that decomposes the multi-copy gene family trees into many single copy trees, which allows for methods previously designed for species tree inference in a single copy gene tree context to be used.

While there have been several species tree estimation methods introduced in recent years to specifically address gene tree heterogeneity due to gene duplication and loss (such as DupTree, FastMulRFS, ASTRAL-Pro, and SpeciesRax), many incur high cost in terms of both running time and memory. However, gene tree heterogeneity, which can be caused by several factors including gene duplication and loss, makes the estimation of species trees very challenging. Instead, we use traversal methods that take into account the basic structure of a tree i.e.Species tree inference from gene family trees is a significant problem in computational biology. Starting from bottom, Left to right 5 -> 6 -> 12 -> 9 -> 1Īlthough this process is somewhat easy, it doesn't respect the hierarchy of the tree, only the depth of the nodes. Starting from top, Left to right 1 -> 12 -> 5 -> 6 -> 9 Let's think about how we can read the elements of the tree in the image shown above. But a hierarchical data structure like a tree can be traversed in different ways. Linear data structures like arrays, stacks, queues, and linked list have only one way to read the data.

For all these operations, you will need to visit each node of the tree. You might, for instance, want to add all the values in the tree or find the largest one. Traversing a tree means visiting every node in the tree.

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