Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on September 1, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(21):2539-2541; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn466
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Bosque: integrated phylogenetic analysis software
Departmento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile
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Summary: Phylogenetic analyses today involve dealing with computer files in different formats and often several computer programs. Although some widely used applications have integrated important functionalities for such analyses, they still work with local resources only: input/output files (users have to manage them) and local computing (users have sometimes to leave their programs, on their desktop computers, running for extended periods of time). To address these problems we have developed Bosque, a multi-platform client–server software that performs standard phylogenetic tasks either locally or remotely on servers, and integrates the results on a local relational database. Bosque performs sequence alignments and graphical visualization and editing of trees, thus providing a powerful environment that integrates all the steps of phylogenetic analyses.
Availability: http://bosque.udec.cl
Contact: sram{at}profc.udec.cl
Associate Editor: Alex Bateman
Received on March 4, 2008; revised on August 21, 2008; accepted on August 28, 2008