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Fig. 2

From: EmpPrior: using outside empirical data to inform branch-length priors for Bayesian phylogenetics

Fig. 2

EmpPrior-search graphical user interface (GUI). The EmpPrior-search GUI allows users to specify the gene name and constraints on the number of taxa in a series of text fields at the bottom. These restrictions help to ensure that datasets returned from the search can provide relevant information to inform analysis of the focal data. A window in the middle of the GUI logs information about the progress of the TreeBase search and post-processing of datasets. A progress bar at the top provides users with a rough idea of EmpPrior-search’s progress. An optional post-processing step can be turned on with a radio button at the bottom, causing EmpPrior-search to attempt to extract the gene of interest from a multi-gene dataset. Due to inconsistencies in gene naming and data file formatting, this step can sometimes produce unreliable results. Users should always manually inspect relevant datasets to ensure that they have been parsed properly

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