Cyanobacteria Phylogeny Programs in Linux for Mac or PC

Determination of phylogentic relationships by comparison of rRNA genes has become widely accepted. Many different statistical packages are available for generating phylogenetic trees from sequence data. Some of these are costly, while others require the Linux operating system. Dr. Mike Herdman from the Pasteur Institute has created a software package that allows a sophisticated phylogeny suite to run on a Mac or PC by including a virtual Linux hard drive.

The initial suite of KUbuntu 10.04 LTS includes extensive databases of aligned cyanobacterial 16S and 23S rRNA sequences (maintained in the software package ARB), together with many of the Linux phylogeny programs required for sequence manipulation and tree inference (including maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, splits graphs, PCA analysis), tree visualization, and a useful collection of shell scripts as program aids.

Read more about the Virtual Machine and the package available for download here.

See a list of programs included in the Virtual Machine here.

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