brettc / partitionfinder

PartitionFinder discovers optimal partitioning schemes for DNA sequences.
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check morphology models #96

Closed roblanf closed 7 years ago

roblanf commented 8 years ago

The job here is to look carefully at the last four lines of the models.csv file on the feature/morph2 branch.

What I need to know is:

  1. Are these the correct four models to implement?
  2. Should there be more models implemented?
  3. Are the number of parameters for each model correct?
  4. Are the RAxML commandlines correct for these models?
roblanf commented 8 years ago

@wrightaprilm, could you take this one on. This is hopefully not a huge amount of work, but you're by far the best placed to do it. Let me know.

roblanf commented 8 years ago

Hey @wrightaprilm, can you tell me how many paramters each of the morphology models should have?

Specifically, for these four models:

BINARY+G
BINARY+G+A
MULTISTATE+G
MULTISTATE+G+A

How many free parameters do they have in each of these categories:

Rate matrix
Base (??? for morph???) frequencies
Rate variation
wrightaprilm commented 8 years ago

Ooops, missed this.

There's only one parameter in the base Mk model (base frequencies assumed equal) - transition rate. Since transition rate is assumed to be equal, it's not a free parameter. So I think the number is zero. I am actually not sure how +G gets treated by RAxML.

roblanf commented 7 years ago

done.