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Published on: August 14, 2018
CloudPhylo: a fast and scalable tool for phylogeny reconstruction
Xingjian Xu1,2,3, Zhaohua Ji4,5,6, Zhang Zhang1,2
1CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics (BIG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China.
Summary:
Phylogeny reconstruction is fundamentally crucial for molecular evolutionary studies but remains computationally challenging. Here we present CloudPhylo, a tool built on Spark that is capable of processing large-scale datasets for phylogeny reconstruction. As testified on empirical data, CloudPhylo is well suited for big data analysis, achieving high efficiency and good scalability on phylogenetic tree inference.
Availability And Implementation:
https://github.com/XingjianXu/cloudphylo
Contact:
zhangzhang@big.ac.cn
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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