An alignment consists of m rows of nucleotides, corresponding to taxa, and n columns, corresponding to homologous residues. Given such an alignment, we compute the “classical” bootstrap by resampling columns with replacement and recomputing a matrix of Jukes–Cantor distances. This procedure is implemented in our program dnaDist, the sources and documentation of which are available from the website accompanying this paper:
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