PHYLOGENY

Phylip on the Web (L'Institute Pasteur, France) - for information on this set of programs see: Joseph Felenstein, (University of Washington, U.S.A.).

 T-Rex (Tree and reticulogram REConstruction) - is dedicated to the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees, reticulation networks and to the inference of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events. T-REX includes several popular bioinformatics applications such as MUSCLE, MAFFT, Neighbor Joining, NINJA, BioNJ, PhyML, RAxML, random phylogenetic tree generator and some well-known sequence-to-distance transformation models. It also comprises fast and effective methods for inferring phylogenetic trees from complete and incomplete distance matrices as well as for reconstructing reticulograms and HGT networks (Reference: Alix, C. et al. 2012.  Nucl. Acids Res. 40 (W1): W573-W579).

 Phylogeny.fr - is a simple to use web service dedicated to reconstructing and analysing phylogenetic relationships between molecular sequences.It includes multiple alignment (MUSCLE, T-Coffee, ClustalW, ProbCons), phylogeny (PhyML, MrBayes, TNT, BioNJ), tree viewer (Drawgram, Drawtree, ATV) and utility programs (e.g. Gblocks to eliminate poorly aligned positions and divergent regions) (Reference: A. Dereeper  et al,. 2008. Nucl. Acids Res. 36 (Web Server Issue):W465-9).

PHYML - is a simple, fast and accurate algorithm to estimate maximum likelihood phylogenies from DNA and protein sequences. This tool provides the user with a number of options, e.g. nonparametric bootstrap and estimation of various evolutionary parameters. (Reference:  Guindon, S.et al. 2010. Systematic Biology, 59(3):307-21).
ProtTest (David Posada, University of Vigo, Spain) - estimates the empirical model of aminoacid substitution that fits the data best among 64 candidate models. PROTTEST calculates AIC, AICc and BIC values, and obtain a rank of model fits, model-averaged parameter estimates, or measures of parameter importance.  Mac OSX, Windows and Linux versions are available for downloading.

 Phylemon2 - a suite of web-tools for molecular evolution, phylogenetics and phylogenomics (Reference:Sánchez, R. et al. 2011.Nucl. Acids Res. 39/suppl_2/W470)

POWER (PhylOgenetic Web Repeater) - allows users to carry out phylogenetic analysis on most programs of PHYLIP package repeatedly. POWER provide two pipelines to process the analysis. One of them includes multiple sequence alignment (MSA) at the beginning of the pipeline whereas the other begin phylogenetic analysis with aligned sequence. Very user friendly. (Reference: C.-Y. Lin. et al. 2005. Nucl. Acids Res. 33: W553-W556).
Phylodendron - phylogenetic tree printer (D.G. Gilbert, Indiana Univ.) - very useful in visualizing *.dnd file from aligments and saving the results as .GIF, .PS or .PDF files.  N.B. The font style and size can be altered in the .PDF output format.
Phylogenetic tree prediction - GeneBee service (Belozersky Institute of Physico-chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia)

 CVTree - Composition Vector - constructs whole-genome based phylogenetic trees without sequence alignment by using a Composition Vector (CV) approach. It was first developed to infer evolutionary relatedness of microbial organisms and then successfully applied to viruses, chloroplasts, and fungi. It circumvents the ambiguity of choosing the genes for phylogenetic reconstruction and avoids the necessity of aligning sequences of essentially different length and gene content. (Reference: Z. Xu & B. Hao 2009. Nucl. Acids Res. 37(Web Server issue:W174-W178)

 webPRANK -  incorporates phylogeny-aware multiple sequence alignment, visualisation and post-processing in an easy-to-use web interface.(Reference: Löytynoja, A., & Goldman, N. 2010. BMC Bioinformatics. 11:579).

 ReplacementMatrix - maximum-likelihood estimation of amino acid replacement rate matrices.(Reference: Dang, C.C. et al. 2011. Bioinformatics. 27(19):2758-2760).

 DIVEIN - starting with a set of aligned sequences, DIVEIN estimates evolutionary parameters and phylogenetic trees while allowing the user to choose from a variety of evolutionary models; it then reconstructs the consensus (CON), most recent common ancestor (MRCA), and center of tree (COT) sequences. DIVEIN also provides tools for further analyses. (Reference: Deng, W. et al. 2010. Biotechniques. 48(5):405-408).

Ribosomal RNA Analysis - The Ribosomal Database Project II (Michigan State University Centre for Microbial Ecology, U.S.A.).
Ridom - Ribosomal RNA analysis for clinically relevant bacteria - (University of Würzburg, Germany)
Rifle - (Universitat Bielefeld, Germany) The RIFLE system compares restriction patterns of 16S rDNA amplicons against a database of theoretical restriction patterns generated from a 16S rDNA database

 

Updated: October 28, 2012