ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates
Open Access
- 8 May 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Methods
- Vol. 14 (6), 587-589
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4285
Abstract
ModelFinder is a fast model-selection method that greatly improves the accuracy of phylogenetic estimates. 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.This publication has 35 references indexed in Scilit:
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