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Use tree refinement and constraint topology in species tree pipeline
Description
There is a need for specifying a topology constraint in the pipeline in order to allow adding new genomes to an existing topology while keeping it fixed.
Related JIRA tickets:
- ENSCOMPARASW-7374
Overview of changes
Change 1
Using the astral tree as starting topology instead of constraint in the protein branch length calculation step.
Change 2
Added option to specify constraining topology as a newick file.
Testing
The pipeline was tested on the vertebrates 112 division. The run finished in 5 hours.
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