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ClockstaR: choosing the number of relaxed-clock models in molecular phylogenetic analysis
Sebastián Duchêne1, Martyna Molak, Simon Y W Ho
1School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Summary:
Relaxed molecular clocks allow the phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary timescales even when substitution rates vary among branches. In analyses of large multigene datasets, it is often appropriate to use multiple relaxed-clock models to accommodate differing patterns of rate variation among genes. We present ClockstaR, a method for selecting the number of relaxed clocks for multigene datasets.
Availability:
ClockstaR is freely available for download at http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/meep/software/.
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