FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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Authors

Morgan N. Price · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Paramvir Dehal · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Adam P. Arkin · University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

FastTree 2 allows the inference of maximum-likelihood phylogenies for huge alignments. FastTree 2 is freely available at http://www.microbesonline.org/fasttree.

Topics & Keywords

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Algorithms and Data Compression

UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Publication Details

Published in: PLoS ONE

Volume 5, Issue 3, pp. e9490-e9490

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009490

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