In article <carmean-2911951219520001 at berbee.botany.ubc.ca>,
Dave Carmean <carmean at sfu.ca> wrote:
>Any suggestions for the best (and hopefully simplest) way to discover if
>the substitutions in my DNA alignment are saturated?
>>I can use DNAdist (PHYLIP) to find the rates of substitution between taxa
>and Hillis's g1 test to indicate that the data set is not random. Neither
>of these directly address the question of saturation.
Wouldn't being _really_ saturated be the same as looking like a random and
unrelated sequence? If so, your test rejecting randomness would already have
rejected true saturation.
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