Is it appropiate to use a neighbor joining tree to calculate unifrac distances?

15 September 2022 1 5K Report

Hi all,

I have 16s sequences from the V3-V4 region. I was wondering if it is correct to use a neighbor joining tree to calculate unifrac distances, instead of a maximum likelihood tree.

Any help will be deeply appreciated,

Best regards

Manuel

Abhijeet Singh

Unifrac distances are no the same thing as phylogenetic distances. So it does not matter.

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