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. 2020 Jan 1;37(1):291-294.
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msz189.

ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models

Diego Darriba  1   2 , David Posada  3   4   5 , Alexey M Kozlov  2 , Alexandros Stamatakis  2   6 , Benoit Morel  2 , Tomas Flouri  7
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ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models

Diego Darriba et al. Mol Biol Evol. .

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.

Keywords: efficient algorithms; high-performance computing; phylogenetic inference; phylogenetic model selection.

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Fig. 1
Model selection accuracy comparison between ModelTest-NG, jModelTest/ProtTest, and ModelFinder for simulated data (top) and LOESS curved fitted to a scatter plot of ModelTest-NG run times versus ModelFinder for empirical data (bottom), for DNA (left) and protein (right) MSAs. The dashed line represents equal run times.
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