SplitsTree is a

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program for inferring

phylogenetic tree A phylogenetic tree or phylogeny is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA. In ...

phylogenetic network A phylogenetic network is any graph used to visualize evolutionary relationships (either abstractly or explicitly) between nucleotide sequences, genes, chromosomes, genomes, or species. They are employed when reticulation events such as hybridi ...

s, or, more generally, split graphs, from various types of data such as a

sequence alignment In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural biology, structural, or evolutionary relationships between ...

, a

distance matrix In mathematics, computer science and especially graph theory, a distance matrix is a square matrix (two-dimensional array) containing the distances, taken pairwise, between the elements of a set. Depending upon the application involved, the ''dist ...

or a set of trees.

Software

SplitsTree implements published methods such as

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decomposition,

neighbor-net NeighborNet is an algorithm for constructing phylogenetic networks which is loosely based on the neighbor joining algorithm. Like neighbor joining, the method takes a distance matrix as input, and works by agglomerating clusters. However, the Neig ...

, consensus networks, super networks methods or methods for computing hybridization or simple recombination networks. It uses the NEXUS file format. The splits graph is defined using a special data block (SPLITS block).

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External links

SplitsTree homepage
(New Website for informations about SplitsTree)

for the latest version (4.15) and manual (June 2019), hosted by th
Department of Computer Science
at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Algorithms in Bioinformatics
Daniel Huson's working group developing SplitsTree and other bioinformatics software

hosted at the University of Washington
The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks
provides a wide range of examples for splits graphs, most of which were generated with SplitsTree
Who is Who in Phylogenetic Networks
lists software, researchers and literature dealing with phylogenetic networks Phylogenetics software

Software

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