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checkAlignment

Check DNA Alignments

Description

This function performs a series of diagnostics on a DNA alignement.

Usage

checkAlignment(x, check.gaps = TRUE, plot = TRUE, what = 1:4)

Arguments

`x`	an object of class `"DNAbin"`.
`check.gaps`	a logical value specifying whether to check the distribution of alignment gaps.
`plot`	a logical value specifying whether to do the plots.
`what`	an integer value giving the plot to be done. By default, four plots are done on the same figure.

Details

This function prints on the console a series of diagnostics on the set a aligned DNA sequences. If alignment gaps are present, their width distribution is analysed, as well as the width of contiguous base segments. The pattern of nucleotide diversity on each site is also analysed, and a relevant table is printed.

If plot = TRUE, four plots are done: an image of the alignement, the distribution of gap widths (if present), the Shannon index of nucleotide diversity along the sequence, and the number of observed bases along the sequence.

If the sequences contain many gaps, it might be better to set check.gaps = FALSE to skip the analysis of contiguous segments.

Value

NULL

Author(s)

Emmanuel Paradis

Examples

data(woodmouse)
checkAlignment(woodmouse)
layout(1)

ape

Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

v5.5

GPL-2 | GPL-3

Authors

Emmanuel Paradis [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-2199>), Simon Blomberg [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1062-0839>), Ben Bolker [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2127-0443>), Joseph Brown [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3835-8062>), Santiago Claramunt [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8926-5974>), Julien Claude [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9267-1228>), Hoa Sien Cuong [aut, cph], Richard Desper [aut, cph], Gilles Didier [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0596-9112>), Benoit Durand [aut, cph], Julien Dutheil [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7753-4121>), RJ Ewing [aut, cph], Olivier Gascuel [aut, cph], Thomas Guillerme [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4325-1275>), Christoph Heibl [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7655-3299>), Anthony Ives [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-9523>), Bradley Jones [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4498-1069>), Franz Krah [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7866-7508>), Daniel Lawson [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5311-6213>), Vincent Lefort [aut, cph], Pierre Legendre [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3838-3305>), Jim Lemon [aut, cph], Guillaume Louvel [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7745-0785>), Eric Marcon [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5249-321X>), Rosemary McCloskey [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9772-8553>), Johan Nylander [aut, cph], Rainer Opgen-Rhein [aut, cph], Andrei-Alin Popescu [aut, cph], Manuela Royer-Carenzi [aut, cph], Klaus Schliep [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2941-0161>), Korbinian Strimmer [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7917-2056>), Damien de Vienne [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9532-5251>)

Initial release

2021-04-24