Is it correct to use the predicted protein sequence data from NCBI for phylogenetic tree making?

08 August 2016 1 7K Report

Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics

By using only protein sequence data (as opposed to DNA sequence) you are disregarding information about silent mutations, that may be significant in reconstructing the tree.

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