Title |
PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees
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Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, May 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-9-108 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Vincent Ranwez, Nicolas Clairon, Frédéric Delsuc, Saeed Pourali, Nicolas Auberval, Sorel Diser, Vincent Berry |
Abstract |
Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in publications or analyses such as supertree inference and tree comparisons. However, no tool is currently available to facilitate the management of tree collections providing, for instance: standardisation of taxon names among trees with respect to a reference taxonomy; selection of relevant subsets of trees or sub-trees according to a taxonomic query; or simply computation of descriptive statistics on the collection. Moreover, although several databases of phylogenetic trees exist, there is currently no easy way to find trees that are both relevant and complementary to a given collection of trees. |
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