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. 2020 May 1;37(5):1530-1534.
doi: 10.1093/molbev/msaa015.

IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

Bui Quang Minh  1   2 , Heiko A Schmidt  3 , Olga Chernomor  3 , Dominik Schrempf  3   4 , Michael D Woodhams  5 , Arndt von Haeseler  3   6 , Robert Lanfear  2
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IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

Bui Quang Minh et al. Mol Biol Evol. .

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Abstract

IQ-TREE (http://www.iqtree.org, last accessed February 6, 2020) is a user-friendly and widely used software package for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood. Since the release of version 1 in 2014, we have continuously expanded IQ-TREE to integrate a plethora of new models of sequence evolution and efficient computational approaches of phylogenetic inference to deal with genomic data. Here, we describe notable features of IQ-TREE version 2 and highlight the key advantages over other software.

Keywords: maximum likelihood; models of sequence evolution; phylogenetics; phylogenomics.

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