Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on October 30, 2009
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp625
MATICCE: mapping transitions in continuous character evolution
1Herbarium, The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle IL 60532-1293, USA, 2 Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemical Engineering, Pablo de Olavide University, Ctra. Utrera km 1, 41013 Seville, Spain
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Dr. Andrew Hipp, E-mail: ahipp{at}mortonarb.org
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Summary: MATICCE is a new software package in the R language for mapping phylogenetic transitions in organismal traits that have continuous distributions. MATICCE integrates over phylogenetic and model uncertainty and provides simulation functions for visualizing evolutionary scenarios based on estimated parameter values.
Availability and Implementation: MATICCE is written in the open-source R language and freely available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/maticce).
Contact: ahipp{at}mortonarb.org.
Associate Editor: Prof. Martin Bishop
Received on September 15, 2009; revised on October 27, 2009; accepted on October 28, 2009