Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on January 31, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(7):898-900; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm027
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COPYCAT : cophylogenetic analysis tool
1Center for Bioinformatics (ZBIT), Sand 14, Tübingen and 2Organismic Botany/Mycology, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Germany
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Summary: We have developed the software COPYCAT which provides an easy and fast access to cophylogenetic analyses. It incorporates a wrapper for the program PARAFIT, which conducts a statistical test for the presence of congruence between host and parasite phylogenies. COPYCAT offers various features, such as the creation of customized host–parasite association data and the computation of phylogenetic host/parasite trees based on the NCBI taxonomy.
Availability: COPYCAT and its manual are freely available at http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat.
Contact: auch{at}informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Supplementary information: Results of the real-world example can be found at http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat or Bioinformatics online.
Associate Editor: Keith Crandall
Received on November 28, 2006; revised on January 19, 2007; accepted on January 23, 2007