Maximum-likelihood tree inference

Run IQ-TREE phylogenetic tree inference

IQ-TREE estimates an evolutionary tree from aligned DNA or protein sequences using maximum likelihood. It is used when you have a sequence alignment and want a statistically supported phylogenetic tree. It takes one FASTA or Clustal alignment, with an optional partition file, and produces a tree file. It can select a suitable evolutionary model automatically and calculate branch support with UFBoot and SH-aLRT. Phylomena records the model, support settings, seed, command, input, and result for reproducibility.

Supported versions

VersionReleasedImplemented in Phylomena
2.4.0

Citations

  1. Minh BQ, Schmidt HA, Chernomor O, Schrempf D, Woodhams MD, von Haeseler A, Lanfear R. IQ-TREE 2: New models and efficient methods for phylogenetic inference in the genomic era. Mol Biol Evol. 2020;37(5):1530-1534. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa015.
  2. Kalyaanamoorthy S, Minh BQ, Wong TKF, von Haeseler A, Jermiin LS. ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates. Nat Methods. 2017;14(6):587-589. doi:10.1038/nmeth.4285.
  3. Hoang DT, Chernomor O, von Haeseler A, Minh BQ, Vinh LS. UFBoot2: improving the ultrafast bootstrap approximation. Mol Biol Evol. 2018;35(2):518-522. doi:10.1093/molbev/msx281.