RASP 4: Ancestral State Reconstruction Tool for Multiple Genes and Characters. (31st October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yu, Yan; Blair, Christopher; He, Xingjin
• Editors: Yoder, Anne
• Is Part Of: Molecular biology and evolution. Volume 37:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 604
• Page End: 606
• Publication Date: 2019-10-31
• Subjects: ancestral state reconstruction -- genome -- phylogeny -- phylogenetic signal; Molecular biology -- Periodicals; Molecular evolution -- Periodicals; Evolution, Molecular -- Periodicals; Molecular Biology -- Periodicals; 572.8
• DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz257
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0737-4038

Abstract

Abstract: With the continual progress of sequencing techniques, genome-scale data are increasingly used in phylogenetic studies. With more data from throughout the genome, the relationship between genes and different kinds of characters is receiving more attention. Here, we present version 4 of RASP, a software to reconstruct ancestral states through phylogenetic trees. RASP can apply generalized statistical ancestral reconstruction methods to phylogenies, explore the phylogenetic signal of characters to particular trees, calculate distances between trees, and cluster trees into groups. RASP 4 has an improved graphic user interface and is freely available from http://mnh.scu.edu.cn/soft/blog/RASP (program) and https://github.com/sculab/RASP (source code).