Inferring phylogenetic trees from mutational distance of transposable elements

There are many methods for establishing a phylogeny available to researchers. Some of these are based on the mutational distance between ortholog sequences of DNA, and, from these, some are based on the analysis (presence/absence) of transposable elements in specific loci of ortholog sequences. We present a new approach: a method for inferring a phylogeny based on the mutational distance of transposable elements distributed along any segment of DNA. Our method doesn’t require previously having ortholog segments of DNA from every organism. The method can be fully automated, not requiring any previous or posterior data analysis nor data preparation.