GToTree: a user-friendly workflow for phylogenomics

SUMMARY: Genome-level evolutionary inference (i.e. phylogenomics) is becoming an increasingly essential step in many biologists' work. Accordingly, there are several tools available for the major steps in a phylogenomics workflow. But for the biologist whose main focus is not bioinformatics, much of the computational work required-such as accessing genomic data on large scales, integrating genomes from different file formats, performing required filtering, stitching different tools together etc.-can be prohibitive. Here I introduce GToTree, a command-line tool that can take any combination of fasta files, GenBank files and/or NCBI assembly accessions as input and outputs an alignment file, estimates of genome…

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  National Science Foundation

  Awards: ACI-1548562, TG-BCS180020
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Award: NNH16ZTT001N-MOBE
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  Planetary Science Division