SplitsTree is a freeware program for inferring phylogenetic trees, phylogenetic networks, or, more generally, split graphs, from various types of data such as a sequence alignment, a distance matrix or a set of trees.
Software
SplitsTree implements published methods such as split decomposition,3 neighbor-net, consensus networks,4 super networks methods or methods for computing hybridization or simple recombination networks. It uses the NEXUS file format. The splits graph is defined using a special data block (SPLITS block).
See also
External links
- SplitsTree homepage (New Website for informations about SplitsTree)
- Alternative download page for the latest version (4.15) and manual (June 2019), hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
- Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Daniel Huson's working group developing SplitsTree and other bioinformatics software
- List of phylogeny software, hosted at the University of Washington
- The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks provides a wide range of examples for splits graphs, most of which were generated with SplitsTree
- Who is Who in Phylogenetic Networks lists software, researchers and literature dealing with phylogenetic networks
References
Dress, A.; K. T. Huber; V. Moulton (2001). "Metric spaces in pure and applied mathematics" (PDF). Documenta Mathematica. Documenta Mathematica Series. 2: 121–139. doi:10.4171/dms/2/5. ISBN 978-3-98547-042-6. 978-3-98547-042-6 ↩
Huson, D. H.; D. Bryant (2006). "Application of Phylogenetic Networks in Evolutionary Studies". Mol. Biol. Evol. 23 (2): 254–267. doi:10.1093/molbev/msj030. PMID 16221896. https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fmolbev%2Fmsj030 ↩
Bandelt, H. J.; Dress, A. W. (1992). "Split decomposition: a new and useful approach to phylogenetic analysis of distance data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 1 (3): 242–252. Bibcode:1992MolPE...1..242B. doi:10.1016/1055-7903(92)90021-8. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 1342941. /wiki/Bibcode_(identifier) ↩
Holland, Barbara; Moulton, Vincent (2003). "Consensus Networks: A Method for Visualising Incompatibilities in Collections of Trees". In Benson, Gary; Page, Roderic D. M. (eds.). Algorithms in Bioinformatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2812. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 165–176. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39763-2_13. ISBN 9783540397632. 9783540397632 ↩