ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models. (21st August 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Darriba, Diego; Posada, David; Kozlov, Alexey M; Stamatakis, Alexandros; Morel, Benoit; Flouri, Tomas
• Editors: Crandall, Keith
• Is Part Of: Molecular biology and evolution. Volume 37:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 291
• Page End: 294
• Publication Date: 2019-08-21
• Subjects: phylogenetic model selection -- high-performance computing -- efficient algorithms -- phylogenetic inference; Molecular biology -- Periodicals; Molecular evolution -- Periodicals; Evolution, Molecular -- Periodicals; Molecular Biology -- Periodicals; 572.8
• DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz189
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0737-4038

Abstract

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.