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author | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-10 03:21:05 +0000 |
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committer | steve <steve@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-07-10 03:21:05 +0000 |
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Add paml version 3.01.
A set of utilities for performing Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum
Likelihood (PAML).
PR: 19753
Submitted by: David A. Bader <dbader@cielo.eece.unm.edu>
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diff --git a/biology/paml/pkg-descr b/biology/paml/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0fa645 --- /dev/null +++ b/biology/paml/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood (PAML) + +PAML is a program package for phylogenetic analyses of DNA or protein +sequences using maximum likelihood, and is maintained and distributed +by Ziheng Yang. + +Possible uses of the programs are: +- Estimation of branch lengths in a phylogenetic tree and parameters + in the evolutionary model such as the transition/transversion rate + ratio, the shape parameter of the gamma distribution for variable + evolutionary rates among sites, and rate parameters for different + genes; +- Test of hypotheses concerning sequence evolution, such as rate + constancy and independence among nucleotide or amino acid sites, rate + constancy among lineages (the molecular clock), and homogeneity of + evolutionary process in multiple genes; +- Calculation of substitution rates at sites; +- Reconstruction of ancestral nucleotide or amino acid sequences; +- Simulation of nucleotide, codon, and amino acid sequence data sets; +- Phylogenetic tree reconstruction by maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods. + +WWW: http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/software/paml.html |