Building phylogenetic trees

These are much simplified web interfaces to some programs for building and drawing phylogenetic trees:

Neighbour joining using DNADIST and NEIGHBOR from Phylip.
Parsimony using DNAPARS and CONSENSE from Phylip.
Maximum likelihood using fastDNAml.

After building a tree you can have it drawn using DRAWTREE from Phylip.

Another page demonstrates algorithms for biosequence alignment.

Phylip

The programs DNADIST, NEIGHBOR, DNAPARS, CONSENSE, and DRAWTREE are from the Phylip package by Joseph Felsenstein. The programs (version 3.5c) were obtained in March 2000 from the Phylip homepage.

FastDNAml

The program fastDNAml was written Gary J. Olsen. The programs (version version 1.2.2) were obtained in March 2000 from the fastDNAml homepage.

Peter Sestoft (sestoft@dina.kvl.dk) 2000-03-27