Dan DeBlasio(1) and Jen Wisecaver(2,3)
(1) Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, dan@dandeblasio.com(2) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univeristy of Arizona, hughesj@emai.arizona.edu (3) currently: Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
SICLE: A high-throughput tool for extracting evolutionary relationships from phylogenetic trees
We present the phylogeny analysis software SICLE (Sister Clade Extractor), an easy to use, adaptable, and high-throughput tool to describe the nearest neighbors to a node of interest in a phylogenetic tree as well as the support value for the relationship. With SICLE it is possible to summarize the phylogenetic information produced by automated phylogenetic pipelines to rapidly identify and quantify the possible evolutionary relationships that merit further investigation. The program is a simple command line utility and is easy to adapt and implement in any phylogenetic pipeline. As a test case, we applied this new tool to published gene phylogenies to identify potential instances of horizontal gene transfer in Salinibacter ruber.arXiv:1303.5785; v1 22 March 2013
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PhyloDB
The source tree files can for the case study of Salinibacter ruber are no longer available on Phylomedb.org, we have included the trees used in our case study here. (M8, tgz) (M13, tgz)
Renaming script mentioned on in the supplemental material of the paper (tgz)
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Group Configuration File (txt)