Table 1.
Simulation results with 1000 trees. The values correspond to the proportion of wrong branches in the inferred trees. Two distance metrics (χ2 and Euclidean) were used with three word lengths. For the distance method, three different evolutionary model have been used : JC, K2P et HKY85.
| 24 taxa | 96 taxa | |||
| sequence length | 1 kb | 3 kb | 5 kb | 3 kb |
| eucl – 4-letter word | 17.8 | 16.3 | 16.4 | 20.5 |
| eucl – 5-letter word | 13.8 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 16.0 |
| eucl – 6-letter word | 12.9 | 10.7 | 10.6 | 14.9 |
| χ2 – 4-letter word | 17.6 | 16.4 | 16.4 | |
| χ2 – 5-letter word | 14.3 | 12.1 | 12.0 | |
| χ2 – 6-letter word | 14.4 | 11.4 | 10.9 | |
| Jukes-Cantor | 11.1 | 6.3 | 5.2 | 9.3 |
| Kimura 2-parameter | 10.5 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 9.2 |
| HKY 85 | 10.5 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 9.2 |