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This provides utilities for phylogenetic analysis

[info] Phylodendron - an application for phylogenetic tree drawing
[info] LVB - Reconstructing evolution with parsimony and simulated annealing
[info] TreeBASE - A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge


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Phylodendron - an application for phylogenetic tree drawing
Phylodendron is an application for drawing phylogenetic trees, used in evolutionary biology. It will read tree data in New Hampshire (Newick) format, then display graphical views of the phylogenetic tree. Various options allow you to modify, adorn and edit the tree. Standard application functions to save, print, edit and manage preferences are included. This program will not estimate nor produce the tree data. For that, software such as Phylip, Clustal W, and others may be used.

Phylodendron is written as a Java application. This means that it will run on most personal computers and workstations as a standard program. This application is an enhancement of the Mac Hypercard program "Tree Draw Deck" released by the author in 1990.


LVB - Reconstructing evolution with parsimony and simulated annealing
LVB is intended for use where there is a very large amount of information (e.g., hundreds of aligned DNA sequences). The program was written to investigate use of the heuristic known as simulated annealing in the search for parsimonious phylogenetic trees.


TreeBASE - A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge
TreeBASE stores phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. We encourage biologists to submit phylogenetic data that are either published or in press, especially if these data were not fully presented in the publication due to space limitations. TreeBASE accepts all types of phylogenetic data (e.g., trees of species, trees of populations, trees of genes) representing all biotic taxa.


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