Recommended approach for building phylogenetic tree from de novo metagenomes

Recommended approach for building phylogenetic tree from de novo metagenomes

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I have about 650 metagenome assembled genomes (MAG) that cluster into about 150 unique species level designations from FastANI. For each of the clusters, I have a nearest reference.

I want to create a phylogenetic tree of these MAGs. I had a few questions:

  1. Is it expected for a high-level publication that a nearest reference is included for each species level cluster? Or is it standard to just make the phylogenetic tree with my MAGs and then put in a table somewhere what the nearest references are?

  2. Is it accepted to create a phylogenetic tree from FastANI values or does this go against the norm since it isn’t based on proteins?

  3. I have both bacterial and viral MAGs. I would do concatenated protein alignments for the bacteria, but how would you do it for viruses since they don’t really have conserved marker genes?


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