tree_add_outgroup

Function to add an outgroup to any phylogeny, in phylo or newick format

Methods and workflows to get chronograms (i.e., phylogenetic trees with branch lengths
proportional to time), using open, peer-reviewed, state-of-the-art scientific data on time of lineage divergence.
This package constitutes the main underlying code of the DateLife web service
at <https://www.datelife.org>. To obtain a single summary chronogram from a group of
relevant chronograms, we implement the Super Distance Matrix (SDM) method
described in Criscuolo et al. (2006) <doi:10.1080/10635150600969872>.
To find the grove of chronograms with a sufficiently overlapping set of taxa
for summarizing, we implement theorem 1.1. from Ané et al. (2009)
<doi:10.1007/s00026-009-0017-x>.
A given phylogenetic tree can be dated using time of lineage divergence data
as secondary calibrations (with caution, see Schenk (2016) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148228>).
To obtain and apply secondary calibrations, the package implements the congruification method described
in Eastman et al. (2013) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12051>. Tree dating can be performed with different methods
including BLADJ (Webb et al. (2008) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn358>), PATHd8
(Britton et al. (2007) <doi:10.1080/10635150701613783>), mrBayes (Huelsenbeck
and Ronquist (2001) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/17.8.754>), and treePL (Smith
and O'Meara (2012) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts492>).

Luna L. Sanchez Reyes

datelife

Scientific Data on Time of Lineage Divergence for Your Taxa

Brian O'Meara

Jonathan Eastman

Tracy Heath

April Wright

Klaus Schliep

Scott Chamberlain

Peter Midford

Luke Harmon

Joseph Brown

Matt Pennell

Mike Alfaro

Emily Jane McTavish

tree_add_outgroup function

<dl><dt>tree</dt>
<dd>A tree either as a newick character string or as a <code>phylo</code> object.</dd>
<dt>outgroup</dt>
<dd>A character vector with the name of the outgroup. If it has length&gt;1, only first element will be used.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Function to add an outgroup to any phylogeny, in phylo or newick format — tree_add_outgroup

<dl>

<dt>tree</dt>
<dd>A tree either as a newick character string or as a <code>phylo</code> object.</dd>


<dt>outgroup</dt>
<dd>A character vector with the name of the outgroup. If it has length&gt;1, only first element will be used.</dd>

</dl>

Function to add an outgroup to any phylogeny, in phylo or newick format

tree_add_outgroup: Function to add an outgroup to any phylogeny, in phylo or newick format

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