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Table 1 Representative branch lengths for 3 phylogenetic trees used for simulations

From: Characterization of multiple sequence alignment errors using complete-likelihood score and position-shift map

Phylogenetic tree

12 primates

15 mammals

9 fast-evolving mammals

Total branch length a

0.384

1.539

2.279

All branches

0.017 ± 0.012

0.055 ± 0.059

0.142 ± 0.111

External branches

0.022 ± 0.011

0.080 ± 0.070

0.228 ± 0.064

Internal branches

0.012 ± 0.012

0.026 ± 0.018

0.032 ± 0.018

  1. NOTE: Each branch length is measured in terms of the expected number of substitutions per base. Except in the first row, the numbers in each cell are: average ± standard deviation.
  2. aThe summation of branch lengths over all branches in the tree.
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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