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ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

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ModelFinder is presented, a fast model-selection method that greatly improves the accuracy of phylogenetic estimates by incorporating a model of rate heterogeneity across sites not previously considered in this context and by allowing concurrent searches of model space and tree space.
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Model-based molecular phylogenetics plays an important role in comparisons of genomic data, and model selection is a key step in all such analyses. We present ModelFinder, a fast model-selection method that greatly improves the accuracy of phylogenetic estimates by incorporating a model of rate heterogeneity across sites not previously considered in this context and by allowing concurrent searches of model space and tree space.

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PhyloSuite: an integrated and scalable desktop platform for streamlined molecular sequence data management and evolutionary phylogenetics studies

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MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution.

TL;DR: The program MODELTEST uses log likelihood scores to establish the model of DNA evolution that best fits the data.
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New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

TL;DR: A new algorithm to search the tree space with user-defined intensity using subtree pruning and regrafting topological moves and a new test to assess the support of the data for internal branches of a phylogeny are introduced.
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IQ-TREE: A fast and effective stochastic algorithm for estimating maximum likelihood phylogenies

TL;DR: It is shown that a combination of hill-climbing approaches and a stochastic perturbation method can be time-efficiently implemented and found higher likelihoods between 62.2% and 87.1% of the studied alignments, thus efficiently exploring the tree-space.
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jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing.

TL;DR: jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing Diego Darriba, Guillermo L. Taboada, Ramón Doallo and David Posada.
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jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging

TL;DR: jModelTest is a new program for the statistical selection of models of nucleotide substitution based on "Phyml" that implements 5 different selection strategies, including "hierarchical and dynamical likelihood ratio tests," the "Akaike information criterion", the "Bayesian information criterion," and a "decision-theoretic performance-based" approach.
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