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Phylogenetic Analysis

Phylogenetic Analysis. General comments on phylogenetics. Phylogenetics is the branch of biology that deals with evolutionary relatedness Uses some measure of evolutionary relatedness: e.g., morphological features.

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Phylogenetic Analysis

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  1. Phylogenetic Analysis

  2. General comments on phylogenetics • Phylogenetics is the branch of biology that deals with evolutionary relatedness • Uses some measure of evolutionary relatedness: e.g., morphological features

  3. Phylogenetics on sequence data is an attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of those sequences • Relationships between individual sequences are not necessarily the same as those between the organisms they are found in

  4. The ultimate goal is to be able to use sequence data from many sequences to give information about phylogenetic history of organisms • Phylogenetic relationships usually depicted as trees, with branches representing ancestors of “children”; the bottom of the tree (individual organisms) are leaves. Individual branch points are nodes.

  5. Phylogenetic trees C A D time B A B C D An unrooted tree A rooted tree time?

  6. We will only consider binary trees: edges split only into two branches (daughter edges) • rooted trees have an explicit ancestor; the direction of time is explicit in these trees • unrooted trees do not have an explicit ancestor; the direction of time is undetermined in such trees

  7. Types of phylogenetic analysis methods • Phenetic: trees are constructed based on observed characteristics, not on evolutionary history • Cladistic: trees are constructed based on fitting observed characteristics to some model of evolutionary history Distance methods Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood methods

  8. Similarity and Homology • The evolutionary relationship between sequences is inferred from the similarity of the sequences • Similarity is a measurable quantity (e.g., % identity, alignment score, etc.) • Homology is the inference from sequence similarity data that sequences are evolutionarily related

  9. Sequence alignments • Aligning sequences gives information about • Similarity • Areas of sequences that are conserved through evolution

  10. The real problem … • How do we compare sequences? • Seq 1: CTGCACTA • Seq 2: CACTA • or C---ACTA

  11. The real problem … • How do we compare sequences? • Seq 1: CTGCACTA • Seq 2: CACTA • or C---ACTA • Scoring tries to approximate evolution: scores for substitutions and for gaps (insertions/deletions) • Scores = sum of terms for substitutions and for gaps (sequence as character string) 41 17

  12. Sequence alignment I • Simplest scoring: 1 for match, 0 for no match • CTGCACTA • CACTA • CTGCACTA • C---ACTA Score = 5 Score = 5

  13. Sequence alignment II • Slightly more advanced scoring: +1 for match, 0 for no match, -1 for gap • CTGCACTA • CACTA • CTGCACTA • C---ACTA Score = 5 Score = 2

  14. G C A T G 1 0 0 0 C 0 1 0 0 A 0 0 1 0 T 0 0 0 1 G C A T G 1 -1 -1 -1 C -1 1 -1 -1 A -1 -1 1 -1 T -1 -1 -1 1 Identity scoring matrices: top, simple form; below, with mismatch penalty

  15. In-class exercise II • Using the “advanced scoring method” calculate the scores for the following pairs of nucleotide sequences:

  16. What about proteins? • Chemistry of amino acids means that some substitutions in the sequence are better than others • Substitution matrix: empirically derived scores for frequency of substitution of each amino acid for all 19 others.

  17. BLOSUM 62 Substitution matrix

  18. In-class exercise III • Using the BLOSUM62 substitution matrix and a gap penalty of -2, score the following pairs of protein sequences (do not penalize end gaps)

  19. Dynamic programming: strategy • Break alignment problem into small pieces • Optimize first piece • Then extend into second piece; since first piece is optimized already, program only needs to optimize extension • Continue until end of comparison

  20. Why multiple alignments? • Alignment of more than two sequences • Usually gives better information about conserved regions and function (more data) • Better estimate of significance when using a sequence of unknown function • Must use multiple alignments when establishing phylogenetic relationships

  21. Dynamic programming extended to many dimensions? • No – uses up too much computer time and space • E.g. 200 amino acids in a pairwise alignment – must evaluate 4 x 104 matrix elements • If 3 sequences, 8 x 106 matrix elements • If 6 sequences, 6.4 x 1013 matrix elements

  22. Need to find more efficient method • Sacrifice certainty of optimum alignment for certainty of good alignment but faster

  23. Feng-doolittle algorithm • Does all pairwise alignments and scores them • Converts pairwise scores to “distances” • D = -logSeff = -log [(Sobs –Srand)/(Smax –Srand)] • Sobs = pairwise alignment score • Srand = expected score for random alignment • Smax = average of self-alignments of the two sequences

  24. As Smax approaches Srand (increasing evolutionary distance), Seff goes down; to make the distance measure positive, use the -log

  25. Once the distances have been calculated, construct a guide tree (more in the phylogeny class) – tells what order to group the sequences • Sequences can be aligned with sequences or groups; groups can be aligned with groups

  26. Sequence-sequence alignments: dynamic programming • Sequence-group alignments: all possible pairwise alignments between sequence and group are tried, highest scoring pair is how it gets aligned to group • Group-group alignments: all possible pairwise alignments of sequences between groups are tried; highest scoring pair is how groups get aligned

  27. Example Seq5 Seq3 Seq4 Seq1 Seq2 Alignment 2 Alignment 1 Alignment 3 Final alignment

  28. Notice that this method does not guarantee the optimum alignment; just a good one. Gaps are preserved from alignment to alignment: “once a gap, always a gap”

  29. Distance methods • Measuring distance -- just like when we talked about multiple alignment, distance represents all the differences at the various positions; these differences can be treated as equal or weighted according to empirical knowledge of substitution rates

  30. Another way to say this is that there are a set of distances dij between each pair of sequences i,j in the dataset. dij can be the fraction f of sites u where residues xi and xj differ; or dij can be such a fraction but weighted in some way (e.g. Jukes-Cantor distance)

  31. Clustering algorithms • UPGMA -- this is the distance clustering method that is used in pileup to make the guide tree • dij is the average distance between pairs of sequences found in two clusters, Ci and Cj. • Text’s notation: |Ci| = number of sequences in Ci

  32. The algorithm in the text means just what we said before: find the closest distance between two sequences, cluster those; then find the next closest distance, cluster those; as sequences are added to existing clusters find the average distance between existing clusters • Work through the notation! • UPGMA assumes a molecular clock mechanism of evolution

  33. Neighbor-joining: corrects for UPGMA’s assumption of the same rate of evolution for each branch by modifying the distance matrix to reflect different rates of change. • The net difference between sequence i and all other sequences is • ri = Sdik k

  34. The rate-corrected distance matrix is then • Mij = dij - (ri + rj)/(n - 2) • Join the two sequences whose Mij is minimal; then calculate the distance from this new node to all other sequences using • dkm = (dim + djm - dij)/2 • Again correct for rates and join nodes.

  35. In-class exercise I • Retrieve the file named phylo2 from bioinfI.list in my directory • Open it in the editor, select all the sequencs • Select Functions  Evolution  PAUPSearch; in Tree Optimality Criterion choose distance; in Method for Obtaining Best Tree choose heuristic. Leave everything else as default (make sure bootstrap option is not selected) • Select Run. Inspect output

  36. Parsimony methods • Parsimony methods are based on the idea that the most probable evolutionary pathway is the one that requires the smallest number of changes from some ancestral state • For sequences, this implies treating each position separately and finding the minimal number of substitutions at each position

  37. Example of parsimonious tree building • Tree on left requires only one change, tree on left requires two: left tree is most parsimonious

  38. Parsimony methods assign a cost to each tree available to the dataset, then screen trees available to the dataset and select the most parsimonious • Screening all the trees available to even a smallish dataset would take too much time; branch and bound method builds trees with increasing numbers of leaves but abandons the topology whenever the current tree has a bigger cost than any complete tree

  39. In-class exercise II • Use same data set and program as in exercise I, but choose maximum parsimony. Use heuristic for the tree building method. • Inspect your tree. Compare it to the distance generated tree.

  40. Maximum likelihood methods • Maximum likelihood reconstructs a tree according to an explicit model of evolution. For the given model, no other method will work as well • But, such models must be simple, because the method is computationally intensive

  41. Actually, all the other methods discussed implicitly use a simple model of evolution similar to the typical model made explicit in maximum likelihood: • All sites selectively neutral • All mutate independently, forward and reverse rates equal, given by m

  42. Also assume discrete generations and sites change independently • Given this model, can calculate probability that a site with initial nucleotide I will change to nucleotide j within time t: • Ptij = dije-mt + (1 - e-mt)gj, where dij = 1 if i = j and dij = 0 otherwise, and where gj is the equilibrium frequency of nucleotide j

  43. The likelihood that some site is in state i at the kth node of a tree is Li(k) • The likelihoods for all states for each site for each node are calculated separately; the product of the likelihoods for each site gives the overall likelihood for the observed data • Different tree topologies are searched to find the highest overall likelihood

  44. Maximum likelihood is maybe the “gold standard” for phylogenetic analysis; but because of its computational intensity it can only be used for select data and only after much initial fine tuning of many parameters of sequence alignments • Often used to distinguish between several already generated trees

  45. Assessing trees • The bootstrap: randomly sample all positions (columns in an alignment) with replacement -- meaning some columns can be repeated -- but conserving the number of positions; build a large dataset of these randomized samples

  46. Bootstrap alignment process

  47. Then use your method (distance, parsimony, likelihood) to generate another tree • Do this a thousand or so times • Note that if the assumptions the method is based on hold, you should always get the same tree from the bootstrapped alignments as you did originally • The frequency of some feature of your phylogeny in the bootstrapped set gives some measure of the confidence you can have for this feature

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