FastTree 2--approximately maximum-likelihood trees for large alignments.

We recently described FastTree, a tool for inferring phylogenies for alignments with up to hundreds of thousands of sequences. Here, we describe improvements to FastTree that improve its accuracy without sacrificing scalability.Where FastTree 1 used nearest-neighbor interchanges (NNIs) and the minim...

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Main Authors: Morgan N Price, Paramvir S Dehal, Adam P Arkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2835736?pdf=render