Singletons in MSA
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I am reconstructing gene tree using Maximum Likelihood. Multiple Sequences Alignment of Bacterial strains consists of singletons. Should I remove them from alignment then reconstruct phylogeny or should I include them in alignment and then reconstruct tree?

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single tones

Do you mean "singletons"?

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Sorry. Of course its singletons

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I'm not sure what you mean by singletons in this context? Can you provide some example data or elaborate your question?

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Singletons are sites which contains at least 2 types of nucleotides and occurs multiple times in an alignment.

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In the context of multiple sequence alignment and phylogeny reconstruction, singleton are sites at which only one of the species has a distinct nucleotide, whereas all others are the same. For parsimony methods, they are not informative, so sometimes are removed - though it doesn't change the estimated phylogeny, it just saves computation cost. This is not the case for maximum-likelihood (and probably also Bayesian) methods.

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Ah, think I’m understanding the question now.

I don’t profess to be an expert but to my knowledge, most ML techniques/tools ignore uninformative sites if necessary, so I don’t see a compelling reason to remove them - you’re just throwing away potentially real evolutionary signal as far as I can work out.

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Multiple Sequences Alignment of Bacterial strains consists of singletons

Can you clarify what you mean by that? What exactly are you aligning? Genes, Whole genomes?

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I am aligning genes present in different strains of bacteria. After alignment some sites were shown as singletons. I am using Maximum likelihood method for reconstructing tree. Dose these sites affects the phylogeny?

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