In contrast, most species tree methods either ignore branch lengths in gene and/or species trees [ 8] or estimated ultrametric species trees [ 71].
Much of the large literature on tree shape has focused on the balance of trees – how 'comb-like' or 'bush-like' the tree is, ignoring branch length information.
Also, comparing topologies ignores branch lengths, so the results of these benchmark studies depend only indirectly on the distance values calculated by the alignment-free methods that are to be evaluated.
2) AnGST employs parsimony to evaluate the inferred gene history; therefore, it requires somewhat arbitrary choice of event penalties and ignores branch lengths of the species tree.
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Because these methods ignore the branch length, we also performed these tests using the weighted UniFrac values and found that the bacterial populations of wild and housed sables were significantly different using both the Jclass (P < 0.001) and YC (P < 0.001) indices.
When X k = (A+G+C+T) = S, the nucleotides for the k-th taxon are summed over, effectively ignoring that branch.
We ignore any branch lengths, as they would be difficult to interpret without a statistical model and before understanding the effect of errors.
