Just trying to figure out the most "appropriate" course of action...
I want to place 16S sequences obtained in our lab on a tree with closely
related sequences from GenBank, but one of them isn't complete (e.g. a
string of about 60 Ns between nucleotides 940-1000). Should I:
A) go ahead anyway?
B) cut the offending region out of all the sequences in the alignment?
C) leave the incomplete sequence out entirely?
I plan to go ahead with option B (60 bases out of 1400-some isn't _too_ much
info lost, is it?) but want to know how others treat this sort of thing.
Thanks much
Wally
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