I am working on construction of phylogeny based on Mrbayes and RAxML. I used the Prottest to get the best model for ML (FLU+I+G+F) and BIC (FLU+G+F). I tried FLU for RAxML,but when I used RAxML I could not find the FLU model, so instead i used the prset aamodelpr=fixed(mix) parameter and the third ranked model from ProtTest(GTT+G+F) with preset aamodelpr= fix(jone). But the results are totally different from RAxML results, which is completely not what i expected. So can anyone give me some suggestion? As the results showed the most significant bias is that one of my specials owns longer branch than its closest species.
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This is a comprehensive presentation about Mrbayes and RAxML common features and differences.
http://sco.h-its.org/exelixis/resource/doc/Phylo100225.pdf
It's from 2010, there probably were some changes and upgrades, but main features have hopefully remained the same.
To see other discussions look at the reference below.
To see scientific conclusions you can ask your question at NCBI web-site: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The result is the following:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=Mrbayes%20and%20RAxML%20different%20phylogeny
Look at this paper, for example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221724/
RAxML and FastTree: Comparing Two Methods for Large-Scale Maximum Likelihood Phylogeny Estimation
RAxML runs for several weeks sometimes, but FastTree is really fast and does not loose
a lot of other positive features of RAxML.
Thank you for the answer.BTW do you know any information about the model of FLU in Mrbayes? I wanna to construct the phylogeny based on the best-fit model, but could not find in the Mrbayes.
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