Dear Yan,
> I encountered one problem when using the "per site log Likelihoods"
> computation (-f G) in RAxML v8.2.8. I am testing two topologies on
> genome-wide markers that allow gaps. When I compute individual markers,
> the RAxML keeps reporting an error and refuse to run "ERROR: Sequence
> ABC consists entirely of undetermined values which will be treated as
> missing data...ERROR: Found X sequences that consist entirely of
> undetermined values, exiting..." when it detects the taxa missing this
> entire marker.
>
> I made it work by adding a universal starting site and the result seems
> fine. May I ask is there any way to avoid such error and allow missing
> taxa in the (-f G) option like other options do?
Doesn't: --no-seq-check work?
However, building trees on MSAs containing completely undetermined
sequences is something I would absolutely not recommend, since the
phylogenetic position of those sequences will be completely random and
will distort your signal.
Alexis
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Yan Wang, PhD
> University of California, Riverside
> 1207D Genomics Building
> Riverside, CA 92521
>
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Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University
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