Closed lalalagartija closed 11 months ago
Hi there,
Please use the PAML Google group to discuss and ask questions about PAML programs given that this repository is meant to deal with technical problems users may encounter when running such programs.
With regards to your question, note the following as per Ziheng's message on the Google group in 2022 (see full discussion thread):
t is branch length, expected number of nucleotide substitutions per codon
N: the number of nonsynonymous sites.
S: the number of synonymous sites. N and S are calculated using sequence length, kappa, and codon frequencies. see chapter 2 in yang 2014.
dN/dS: the w ratio. this is the MLE of the parameter in the model. i think you are using a branch model so a few ratios (w0, w1, w2, ...) are estimated and some branches have the same ratio.
dN: the expected number of nonsynonymous substitutions per nonsynonymous site
dS: the expected number of synonymous substitutions per synonymous site. dN and dS are calculated using the branch length, kappa, w, codon frequencies. agains see chapoter 2 in yang 2014.
N*dN: this gives the (predicted) number of nonsynonymous substitutions for the whole gene sequence along the branch
S*dS: : the (predicted) number of synonymous substitutions for the whole gene sequence along the branch
Without input datasets, control files, or output files you got is hard to guess what may have happened when you ran the software. Make sure that you attach these files in the future to help troubleshoot :)
Cheers!
Hi, I weird results with a dS of 26 for a neutral model. How can this be possible ? Isn't the dS supposed to be the pS devided by the number of positions where a sunonymous mutation is possible ?
Thanks,