how to express that a character matrix provides comparative trait data for the phylogeny?

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how to express that a character matrix provides comparative trait data for the phylogeny? #20

Open cboettig opened 10 years ago

cboettig commented 10 years ago

MIAPA has a clear annotation to indicate that a character matrix in a nexml file (characters element) contains an alignment that was used to generate the phylogeny. Character matrices are frequently used in a rather different context in phylogenetic comparative methods (sensu Felsenstein 1985), where the traits might be described by a Brownian motion (OU, etc) model or (discrete) Markov process model, evolving on the phylogeny.

See https://github.com/ropensci/RNeXML/issues/44

hlapp commented 10 years ago

See also a corresponding term request for OBI.