ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models
Universidade da Coruña · Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies · +4 more institutions
Abstract
ModelTest-NG is a reimplementation from scratch of jModelTest and ProtTest, two popular tools for selecting the best-fit nucleotide and amino acid substitution models, respectively. ModelTest-NG is one to two orders of magnitude faster than jModelTest and ProtTest but equally accurate and introduces several new features, such as ascertainment bias correction, mixture, and free-rate models, or the automatic processing of single partitions. ModelTest-NG is available under a GNU GPL3 license at https://github.com/ddarriba/modeltest , last accessed September 2, 2019.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 60.32
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 26
Authors
6- DDDiego DarribaCorresponding
Universidade da Coruña, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- DPDavid Posada
Galicia Sur Biomedical Foundation, Universidade de Vigo
- AMAlexey M. Kozlov
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- ASAlexandros Stamatakis
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
- BMBenoît Morel
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Topics & keywords
- Biology
- Scalability
- Substitution (logic)
- Selection (genetic algorithm)
- Protein evolution
- Computational biology
- Scratch
- Genetics