Padre

Padre constructs phylogenetic networks from rooted multilabelled phylogenetic trees to infer complex evolutionary relationships such as those involving plant allopolyploids.

Key Features:

• Implementation: Implemented in Java as a program for transforming rooted multilabelled phylogenetic trees into networks.
• General methodology: Implements a general, structured method for constructing phylogenetic networks from multilabelled phylogenetic trees suitable for complex datasets.
• Network properties: Produces phylogenetic networks that possess specified desirable properties intended to ensure reliability and accuracy of inferred relationships.

Scientific Applications:

• Allopolyploid evolution: Reconstruction of evolutionary histories of plant allopolyploids by deriving phylogenetic networks from multilabelled trees.

Methodology:

Takes a rooted multilabelled phylogenetic tree as input and transforms it into a phylogenetic network.