Draft post cleanup #11: Tree Hugging

Yet another post in my “draft blog post cleanup” series.  Here is #11 from September.

Just a quick one.  In August a nice review paper came out on phylogenetic analysis software: Learning to Become a Tree Hugger | The Scientist.  By Amy Maxmen it is a “A guide to free software for constructing and assessing species relationships”.  Definitely worth checking out.

Among the key links & tools discussed:

• Clustal
• RAxML
• MrBayes
• BEAST
• TNT
• BEAST user group
• FigTree
• Mesquite
• Dendroscope
• Paloverde
• GeoPhylo
• MUSCLE
• MAFFT
• T-Coffee
• SeaView
• Phylogeny.fr
• European Bioinformatics Institute
• CIPRES
• Evolutionary Analysis Mesquite
• Biodiverse
• Bayes Traits
• Lagrange

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen