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

B. Minh, H. Schmidt, O. Chernomor, Dominik Schrempf, M. Woodhams, A. von Haeseler, R. Lanfear

Molecular biology and evolution, 2020

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.

Cited by 481 publications.

Field of study: Biology

10.1093/molbev/msaa015