SPECTRE: a Suite of PhylogEnetiC Tools for Reticulate Evolution

Sarah Bastkowski, Daniel Mapleson, Andreas Spillner, Taoyang Wu, Monika Balvočiūtė, Vincent Moulton

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Abstract

Split-networks are a generalization of phylogenetic trees that have proven to be a powerful tool in phylogenetics. Various ways have been developed for computing such networks, including split-decomposition, NeighborNet, QNet and FlatNJ. Some of these approaches are implemented in the user-friendly SplitsTree software package. However, to give the user the option to adjust and extend these approaches and to facilitate their integration into analysis pipelines, there is a need for robust, open-source implementations of associated data structures and algorithms. Here we present SPECTRE, a readily available, open-source library of data structures written in Java, that comes complete with new implementations of several pre-published algorithms and a basic interactive graphical interface for visualizing planar split networks. SPECTRE also supports the use of longer running algorithms by providing command line interfaces, which can be executed on servers or in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1056–1057
Number of pages2
JournalBioinformatics
Volume34
Issue number6
Early online date24 Nov 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Mar 2018

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