ASTRAL

ASTRAL is a tool to estimate unrooted species trees from sets of unrooted trees. The ASTRAl algorithm uses a multi-species coalescent model and runs in polynomial time.

Topic

Phylogenetics;Molecular genetics;Statistics and probability

Detail

  • Operation: Phylogenetic tree generation

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: Java

  • License: Apache License 2.0

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 5.7.1

  • Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) graduate student fellowship.

  • Input: Newick

  • Output: Newick

  • Contact: smirarab@ucsd.edu

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Mature

Publications

  • ASTRAL-II: coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes.
  • Mirarab S, Warnow T. ASTRAL-II: coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes. Bioinformatics. 2015 Jun 15;31(12):i44-52. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv234. PMID: 26072508; PMCID: PMC4765870.
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv234
  • PMID: 26072508
  • PMC: PMC4765870
  • Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies.
  • Sayyari E, Mirarab S (2016). Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies. Mol Biol Evol 33(7): 1654-68.
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw079
  • PMID: 27189547
  • PMC: PMC4915361
  • ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees.
  • Zhang C, Rabiee M, Sayyari E, Mirarab S (2018). ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees. BMC Bioinformatics 19(Suppl 6): 153.
  • https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2129-y
  • PMID: 29745866
  • PMC: PMC5998893
  • Testing for Polytomies in Phylogenetic Species Trees Using Quartet Frequencies.
  • Sayyari E, Mirarab S (2018). Testing for Polytomies in Phylogenetic Species Trees Using Quartet Frequencies. Genes (Basel) 9(3).
  • https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9030132
  • PMID: 29495636
  • PMC: PMC5867853

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