notes on evolutionary biology papers/programs and other stuff: a non-frequent approach

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Automation and evaluation of NCPA

Following up on the previous posting on two programs that automate the inference process of Nested Clade Phylogeographic Analysis (NCPA), Panchal & Beaumont create a framework of automated NCPA. Their simulations show that NCPA has a high tendency for false positives. More research is needed, of course, on real-life data.

Panchal M, Beaumont MA. (2007) The automation and evaluation of Nested Clade Phylogeographic Analysis. Evolution 61(6):1466-1480.