CopyCat : cophylogenetic analysis tool

Open Access

31 January 2007

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Bioinformatics

Vol. 23 (7) , 898-900
https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btm027

Abstract

Summary: We have developed the software CopyCat which provides an easy and fast access to cophylogenetic analyses. It incorporates a wrapper for the program ParaFit, which conducts a statistical test for the presence of congruence between host and parasite phylogenies. CopyCat offers various features, such as the creation of customized host–parasite association data and the computation of phylogenetic host/parasite trees based on the NCBI taxonomy. Availability: CopyCat and its manual are freely available at http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat. Contact:auch@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de Supplementary information: Results of the real-world example can be found at http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat or Bioinformatics online.

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