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It has been found that patterns of inferred gaps in alignments contain information towards the true phylogeny, but it is as yet unknown whether gaps are simply reflecting information that was already present in the guide-tree.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We here develop a framework to disentangle the phylogenetic signal carried by gaps from that which is already present in the guide-tree. Our results indicate that most gaps are incorrectly inserted in patterns that, nevertheless, follow the guide-tree. Thus, most gap patterns in current alignments are not informative per se. This affects different programs to various degrees, PRANK being the most sensitive to the guide-tree.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0tgabaldon@crg.es<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt095","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,24]],"date-time":"2013-02-24T01:19:45Z","timestamp":1361668785000},"page":"1011-1017","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Measuring guide-tree dependency of inferred gaps in progressive aligners"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Salvador","family":"Capella-Guti\u00e9rrez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Doctor Aiguader 88 and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Doctor Aiguader 88 and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Toni","family":"Gabald\u00f3n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Doctor Aiguader 88 and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain"},{"name":"1 Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Doctor Aiguader 88 and 2Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), 08003 Barcelona, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012810292278000_btt095-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"495","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr701","article-title":"Measuring the distance between multiple sequence alignments","volume":"28","author":"Blackburne","year":"2012","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023012810292278000_btt095-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1972","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp348","article-title":"trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses","volume":"25","author":"Capella-Gutierrez","year":"2009","journal-title":"Bioinformatics"},{"key":"2023012810292278000_btt095-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"R37","DOI":"10.1186\/gb-2010-11-4-r37","article-title":"Phylogenetic assessment of alignments reveals neglected tree signal in gaps","volume":"11","author":"Dessimoz","year":"2010","journal-title":"Genome Biol."},{"key":"2023012810292278000_btt095-B4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"211","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2148-9-211","article-title":"Phylogenetic inference under varying proportions of indel-induced alignment gaps","volume":"9","author":"Dwivedi","year":"2009","journal-title":"BMC Evol. 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