HyPhy 2.5 - A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies

  • Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
  • , Art F.Y. Poon
  • , Ryan Velazquez
  • , Steven Weaver
  • , N. Lance Hepler
  • , Ben Murrell
  • , Stephen D. Shank
  • , Brittany Rife Magalis
  • , Dave Bouvier
  • , Anton Nekrutenko
  • , Sadie Wisotsky
  • , Stephanie J. Spielman
  • , Simon D.W. Frost
  • , Spencer V. Muse

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Abstract

HYpothesis testing using PHYlogenies (HyPhy) is a scriptable, open-source package for fitting a broad range of evolutionary models to multiple sequence alignments, and for conducting subsequent parameter estimation and hypothesis testing, primarily in the maximum likelihood statistical framework. It has become a popular choice for characterizing various aspects of the evolutionary process: natural selection, evolutionary rates, recombination, and coevolution. The 2.5 release (available from www.hyphy.org) includes a completely re-engineered computational core and analysis library that introduces new classes of evolutionary models and statistical tests, delivers substantial performance and stability enhancements, improves usability, streamlines end-to-end analysis workflows, makes it easier to develop custom analyses, and is mostly backward compatible with previous HyPhy releases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)295-299
Number of pages5
JournalMolecular biology and evolution
Volume37
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

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