Bioinformatics, Vol 14, 817-818, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
D Posada and KA Crandall
SUMMARY: The program MODELTEST uses log likelihood scores to establish the
model of DNA evolution that best fits the data. AVAILABILITY: The MODELTEST
package, including the source code and some documentation is available at
http://bioag.byu. edu/zoology/crandall_lab/modeltest.html.
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MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution
Department of Zoology, Brigham Young University, 574 WIDB, Provo, UT 84602-5255, USA. dp47@email.byu.edu
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