[ensembl-dev] Gene Tree ambiguous nodes

[Matthieu Muffato]

Hello Sébastien

An ambiguous node is a duplication node with a duplication confidence
score of 0. It means that the two resulting copies of the duplication can
not be found at the same time in the same species. There is indeed a
correlation with the bootstrap value, but the latter isn't use in the
definition.

Right now, at most one lost taxon id is stored in the database. So the the
API cannot help you to retrieve the full information, you'll have to
rebuild the list of lost taxa by comparing the gene trees to the species
tree.

Regards
Matthieu Muffato

> At the same time, do you store lost taxa in trees (NHX) as TreeFam does ?
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I wonder how ambiguous nodes are defined in gene trees.
>> Nothing seems to be attached to the D flag in NHX labels for ambiguous
>> nodes.
>>
>>
>> ambiguous nodes seem to be related to bootstrap values.
>> Is it true ?
>>
>> If true, what is the bootstrap threshold you use to define a node as
>> ambiguous ?
>>
>> Regards
>
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