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Is there a system biology approach to compare pathways or famillies of proteins from an evolutionary point of view for the same organism?
I would be interested to know if there is a method/analysis or a set of methods to compare two groups of pathways or families of proteins.
I would specifically be interested by a system biology ...
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Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts with discrete traits
I understand that PICs are normally only used for continuous traits. However, on this how-to site (https://www.r-phylo.org/wiki/HowTo/Phylogenetic_Independent_Contrasts) there is mention of "Discrete ...
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How to incorporate intraspecific variation in discrete characters in comparative analyzes?
I'd like to run a multivariate analysis (Pavoine et al. 2011) that aims to disentagle the effect of environmental gradients on traits, considering its autocorrelation with phylogeny and space. It uses ...
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What are the units of Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts (PICs)
PICs are a popular phylogenetic comparative method and I was wondering what units the actual contrasts are in. I want to say they are unitless but I am not entirely sure.
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