A new paper by Graham Slater and colleagues has just come out "Online Accepted" in Evolution. A direct link to the paper is here. In this article, the authors present a new method in which Approximate Bayesian Computation is used to simultaneously estimate diversification rates & rates of phenotypic evolution in an incompletely sampled tree. Incidentally, I am a (minor) co-author on this article (my contribution was to write some computer code in C that was used in early versions of the software). Check it out.
Monday, October 3, 2011
New paper on ABC comparative method
A new paper by Graham Slater and colleagues has just come out "Online Accepted" in Evolution. A direct link to the paper is here. In this article, the authors present a new method in which Approximate Bayesian Computation is used to simultaneously estimate diversification rates & rates of phenotypic evolution in an incompletely sampled tree. Incidentally, I am a (minor) co-author on this article (my contribution was to write some computer code in C that was used in early versions of the software). Check it out.
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Thanks for posting this, Liam! And FYI, MECCA 1.0 is now available in package form at my website http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/gradstudents/slater/Graham/code.html
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Hi Graham. Very cool. Will this eventually be incorporated into the "geiger" library?
ReplyDeleteP.S. You can embed links by using html tags, even in comments: e.g., link to MECCA is here.
P.P.S. For the uninitiated, ABC has a wikipedia page, here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Liam. I guess I need to improve my commenting skills...
ReplyDeleteYes, MECCA will ultimately find its way into geiger 2.0. The current release can implement a simple BM model, a two-rate model or BM with a trend (note that a strong root prior, such as might come from fossil information, is required for this model to work). The geiger version will implement OU and ACDC too. Any user suggestions/demands are also welcome.