ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models

Overview

Journal Mol Biol Evol

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2019 Aug 22

PMID 31432070

Citations 674

Authors

Diego Darriba

David Posada

Alexey M Kozlov

Alexandros Stamatakis

Benoit Morel

Tomas Flouri

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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.

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