C10 — Mixture model

Usage

C10(weights: List<Double>) → DiscreteDist<CTMC<AA>>

Arguments

A default beginning with ~ specifies a prior distribution.

weights:

The relative frequencies of the components

Default: ~SymmetricDirichlet(10, 10)

Description

Empirically derived mixture model where different components have different equilibrium frequencies to account for site-specific biochemical constraints. It partitions protein alignment sites into 10 distinct profile classes, each with a unique amino acid distribution, to better approximate the varying selective pressures across a sequence.
This site-heterogeneous approach effectively mitigates long-branch attraction and systematic biases that often compromise simpler, single-matrix models like LG or WAG.
This version estimates the relative frequencies of the 10 components from the data set under study.

Examples

C10 +> ASRV.Gamma

Citation

Le, Si Quang; Gascuel, Olivier; Lartillot, Nicolas (2008). Phylogenetic mixture models for proteins. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363(1512): 3965--3976. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0180

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