title: Response to Comment on "Statistical binning enables an accurate coalescent-based estimation of the avian tree".
abstract: Liu and Edwards argue against the use of weighted statistical binning within a species tree estimation pipeline. However, we show that their mathematical argument does not apply to weighted statistical binning. Furthermore, their simulation study does not follow the recommended statistical binning protocol and has data of unknown origin that bias the results against weighted statistical binning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Siavash
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mirarab
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Md Shamsuzzoha
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Bayzid
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biométrie Biologie Evolutive, Université de Lyon, France.
authors.forename: Bastien
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boussau
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. Departments of Bioengineering and Computer Science, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. warnow@illinois.edu.
authors.forename: Tandy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Warnow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D016678:Genome; D010802:Phylogeny