FastTree

FastTree is a software tool for constructing phylogenetic trees using approximately maximum likelihood. The FastTree algorithm uses nearest-neighbor interchanges (NNIs), minimum-evolution criterion, minimum-evolution subtree-pruning-regrafting (SPRs), maximum-likelihood NNIs, heuristics, and rate of evolution estimation.

Topic

Phylogenetics;Sequence analysis

Detail

  • Operation: Phylogenetic tree generation (from molecular sequences);Phylogenetic tree generation (maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods)

  • Software interface: Command-line user interface

  • Language: C

  • License: GNU General Public License >=2

  • Cost: Free

  • Version name: 2.1.11

  • Credit: US Department of Energy Genomics.

  • Input: -

  • Output: -

  • Contact: fasttree@microbesonline.org

  • Collection: -

  • Maturity: Mature

Publications

  • FastTree: computing large minimum evolution trees with profiles instead of a distance matrix.
  • Price MN, Dehal PS, Arkin AP. FastTree: computing large minimum evolution trees with profiles instead of a distance matrix. Mol Biol Evol. 2009 Jul;26(7):1641-50. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp077. Epub 2009 Apr 17. PMID: 19377059; PMCID: PMC2693737.
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msp077
  • PMID: 19377059
  • PMC: PMC2693737

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