PhyloPrune: An automated phylogenetic tree pruning algorithm
Obtaining a pruned phylogenetic tree with the most representative leaves
is a laborious and painstaking job and its outcome is subjective. As there
is no algorithm to identify the leaves which best represent their
branches, we created Phyloprune algorithm to prune automatically as many leaves as
the researcher needs, without calculating the patristic distance matrix or
requiring a distance cutoff, as related programs need. We also created an
algorithm for facilitating manual pruning. Both algorithms can run either
in command line or through the web. Our web implementation supports pruning
of trees with up to 1000 leaves. If you want to prune larger trees, you can download
Phyloprune algorithm and you can use either the command line interface or install the web
interface and increase the size limit. |
