Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 16, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(20):2399-2400; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn364
EPoS: a modular software framework for phylogenetic analysis
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Summary: Estimating Phylogenies of Species (EPoS) is a modular software framework for phylogenetic analysis, visualization and data management. It provides a plugin-based system that integrates a storage facility, a rich user interface and the ability to easily incorporate new methods, functions and visualizations. EPoS ships with persistent data management, a set of well-known phylogenetic algorithms and a multitude of tree visualization methods and layouts. Implemented algorithms cover distance-based tree construction, consensus trees and various graph-based supertree methods. The rendering system can be customized for, say, different edge and node styles.
Availability: Executables and source code are available under the LGPL license at http://www.bio.informatik.uni-jena.de/epos.
Contact: thasso{at}minet.uni-jena.de
Supplementary information: The homepage contains tutorials and documentation for both users and programmers who want to develop plugins and extensions.
Associate Editor: Martin Bishop
Received on April 11, 2008; revised on June 20, 2008; accepted on July 14, 2008