neherlab/pan-genome-analysis

Support values

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Is it possible to calculate support values in the core genome tree?

Something like this here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4810242/

Thank you very much.

The closest thing I can think of is using the support values that RAxML spits out. These are calculated, but we don't currently propagate them through panX though. This would in principle be possible, but newick parsing of support values in Biopython has given us some problem and they aren't handled properly during rerooting. Combined with the fact that I don't think they are very meaningful in recombining bacteria, I have not pushed this direction. But no fundamental limitation...