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Bioinformatics 2005 21(9):2104-2105; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti263
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ProtTest: selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

Federico Abascal 1,2,*, Rafael Zardoya 2 and David Posada 1

1Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, Universidad de Vigo 36310 Vigo, Spain
2Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 28006 Madrid, Spain

*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Summary: Using an appropriate model of amino acid replacement is very important for the study of protein evolution and phylogenetic inference. We have built a tool for the selection of the best-fit model of evolution, among a set of candidate models, for a given protein sequence alignment.

Availability: ProtTest is available under the GNU license from http://darwin.uvigo.es

Contact: fabascal{at}uvigo.es


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