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Rainbow: a toolbox for phylogenetic supertree construction and analysis.

D Chen¹, O Eulenstein, D Fernández-Baca

¹Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA. duhong@iastate.edu

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

|May 18, 2004

Summary

Rainbow is a free software tool that helps researchers build and analyze phylogenetic supertrees. It offers a user-friendly interface for various construction methods and quality assessment, running on multiple operating systems.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Phylogenetics

Background:

Rainbow is a free, open-source software package.
Available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux operating systems.

Purpose of the Study:

To provide a user-friendly graphical interface for constructing phylogenetic supertrees.
To offer tools for analyzing the quality of generated supertrees.

Main Methods:

Utilizes various methods for supertree construction.
Includes quality assessment tools for evaluating supertree reliability.

Main Results:

Successfully constructs phylogenetic supertrees.
Enables analysis of supertree quality.

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Conclusions:

Rainbow is a versatile and accessible tool for phylogenetic research.
Facilitates the creation and evaluation of supertrees across different platforms.