castor
castor is an R tool to manipulate large phylogenetic trees. The castor algorithm includes functions to prune, reroot, compute pairwise distances and from the tree's root, compute phylogenetic signal statistics, construct ancestral traits, and predict hidden characters.
Topic
Phylogenetics;Taxonomy;Phylogeny
Detail
Operation: Phylogenetic tree analysis
Software interface: Library
Language: R
License: GNU General Public License v3
Cost: Free
Version name: 1.7.2
Credit: The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC.
Input: -
Output: -
Contact: Stilianos Louca louca@zoology.ubc.ca
Collection: -
Maturity: Stable
Publications
- Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees.
- Louca S, Doebeli M (2018). Efficient comparative phylogenetics on large trees. Bioinformatics 34(6): 1053-1055.
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701
- PMID: 29091997
- PMC: -
Download and documentation
Source: https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/castor_1.7.2.tar.gz
Documentation: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/castor/castor.pdf
Home page: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/castor/index.html
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