I wish to introduce the TOPD/FMTS software to evaluate similarities and differences between phylogenetic trees. TOPD/FMTS can compare trees with leaf-sets that either completely or partially overlap and can be also used to compare two trees, one or both of which are multigene family trees.
The version 1.0 of TOPD/FMTS implements the following methods to compare phylogenetic trees:
- Split distance.
- Nodal distance.
- Disagree.
- Taxa in common.
- Quartets.
- Triplets.
Each option is also complemented with a randomisation analysis to test the null hypothesis that the similarity between two trees is not better than chance expectation.
TOPD/FMTS is freely available at:
http://genomes.urv.cat/topd .
For more details see the article Puigbo et al. 2007. Bioinformatics doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm135 .
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Pere Puigbò Avalos, PhD Student
Evolutionary Genomics Group,
Biochemistry and Biotechnology Department,
Rovira i Virgily University.
C/Marcel·lí domingo s/n. 43007. Campus Sescelades. Tarragona.
Phone: 0034.977.55.84.86
Web Page:
http://genomes.urv.catE-mail:
ppuigbo@...
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