path: root/biology/fastdnaml/pkg-descr

fastDNAml is a program for estimating maximum likelihood phylogenetic trees
from nucleotide sequences. 

WWW: http://geta.life.uiuc.edu/~gary/programs/fastDNAml.html

fastDNAml is an attempt to solve the same problem as Joseph Felsenstein's
DNAML, but to do so faster and using less memory, so that larger trees and/or
more bootstrap replicates become tractable. Much of fastDNAml is merely a
recoding of the PHYLIP 3.3 DNAML program from PASCAL to C. 

For Felsenstein's phylogenetic analysis softwares, including the latest
versions of DNAML, visit the PHYLIP Home Page:
	http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html

When publishing work that based on results from fastDNAml please cite:

   Felsenstein, J.  1981.  Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences:
   A maximum likelihood approach.  J. Mol. Evol. 17: 368-376.

   Olsen, G. J., Matsuda, H., Hagstrom, R., and Overbeek, R.  1994.
   fastDNAml:  A tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA
   sequences using maximum likelihood.  Comput. Appl. Biosci. 10: 41-48.