SPLACE

SPLACE automates splitting, aligning, and concatenating gene sequences to produce concatenated supermatrix FASTA files for phylogenomic analyses.

Key Features:

• Automated Processing: Automates splitting, aligning, and concatenating gene sequences from multiple species.
• Supermatrix Generation: Generates supermatrix files by aligning and concatenating genes for downstream phylogenetic tree construction.
• Handling Missing Data: Manages missing data in gene sequences to support robust phylogenomic analyses.
• Speed and Efficiency: Produces a supermatrix FASTA file containing 83 aligned and concatenated genes from 270 plant species within minutes.

Scientific Applications:

• Phylogenomic analyses: Enables construction of concatenated gene supermatrices for phylogenetic inference across multiple taxa.
• Evolutionary biology: Facilitates comparative analyses of gene sequences to study evolutionary relationships.
• Plant genomics: Supports large-scale phylogenomic studies in plants, including datasets spanning hundreds of species.

Methodology:

Three computational steps: splitting gene sequences, aligning sequences, and concatenating aligned sequences into a supermatrix FASTA file for phylogenetic tree construction.