Abstract
Abstract 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.
Keywords
DocumentationSubstitution (logic)Source codeComputer scienceCode (set theory)R packageProgramming languageComputational biologyBiologySet (abstract data type)
Affiliated Institutions
Related Publications
Selecting the Best-Fit Model of Nucleotide Substitution
Despite the relevant role of models of nucleotide substitution in phylogenetics, choosing among different models remains a problem. Several statistical methods for selecting the...
LAMARC 2.0: maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation of population parameters
Abstract Summary: We present a Markov chain Monte Carlo coalescent genealogy sampler, LAMARC 2.0, which estimates population genetic parameters from genetic data. LAMARC can co-...
jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging
jModelTest is a new program for the statistical selection of models of nucleotide substitution based on "Phyml" (Guindon and Gascuel 2003. A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm...
Model Averaging and Bayes Factor Calculation of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics
We describe a procedure for model averaging of relaxed molecular clock models in Bayesian phylogenetics. Our approach allows us to model the distribution of rates of substitutio...
TigrScan and GlimmerHMM: two open source <i>ab initio</i> eukaryotic gene-finders
Abstract Summary: We describe two new Generalized Hidden Markov Model implementations for ab initio eukaryotic gene prediction. The C/C++ source code for both is available as op...
Publication Info
- Year
- 1998
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 817-818
- Citations
- 20022
- Access
- Closed
External Links
Social Impact
Altmetric
PlumX Metrics
Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions
Citation Metrics
20022
OpenAlex
Cite This
David Posada,
Keith A. Crandall
(1998).
MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution..
Bioinformatics
, 14
(9)
, 817-818.
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.817
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.817