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

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