BMC Bioinformatics

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Bayesian modeling of recombination events in bacterial populations

Pekka Marttinen1*, Adam Baldwin2, William P Hanage3, Chris Dowson2, Eshwar Mahenthiralingam4 and Jukka Corander5

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Mathematics and statistics, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland

2 Department of Biological Sciences, Warwick University, Coventry. CV4 7AL, UK

3 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London. W2 1PG, UK

4 Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff. CF10 3TL, UK

5 Department of Mathematics, Abo Akademi University, FIN-20500, Finland

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BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:421 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-421

Published: 7 October 2008

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Package of supplementary material. File BRAT_supplementary.zip available at http://web.abo.fi/fak/mnf//mate/jc/software/brat.html webcite includes a file BRAT_supplementary_text.pdf, which contains additional information on following issues: 1) elementary simulation experiments, 2) illustration of the effect of used parameter values and utilized approximations, and 3) a description of the real data analysis with more details than presented in the main text. The zip package also includes two folders. The folder "Coalescent_results" contains complete results for the analyzed coalescent data set, see the README file in the folder for further details. The folder "Trees for repetitive simulations" contains the figures of the left-side and right-side trees used in different types of simulations.

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