QuickTree

QuickTree allows the reconstruction of phylogenies for very large protein families that would be infeasible using other popular methods.

This includes the largest Pfam alignment containing 27000 HIV GP120 glycoprotein sequences.

[Genome Research Limited]

Overview

FTP Download

• Quicktree source

Contact

QuickTree was written by Kevin Howe, in collaboration with Alex Bateman and Richard Durbin.

Publications

• QuickTree: building huge Neighbour-Joining trees of protein sequences.

  Howe K, Bateman A and Durbin R

  Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2002;18;11;1546-7

  PUBMED: 12424131