TreeShrink: fast and accurate detection of outlier long branches in collections of phylogenetic trees

BMC Genomics

Table 3 Performance of TreeShrink in detecting simulated outliers

Dataset	Method	True positives	False positives	Precision	Recall (Sensitivity)	Specificity
5% changed	TreeShrink	106	9	92.2%	53.0%	98.6%
	Rooted pruning	131	17	88.5%	65.5%	97.3%
10% changed	TreeShrink	198	0	100%	99.00%	100%
	Rooted pruning	200	0	100%	100.00%	100%

Each of the two datasets consists of 20 replicates, each has 639 HIV-1 subtype B sequences and 10 simulated outliers, for the total of 12780 subtype B HIV sequences and 200 simulated outliers

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