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newick-utils

Description

newickutils website

The Newick Utilities are a suite of Unix shell tools for processing phylogenetic trees. We distribute the package under the BSD License. Functions include re-rooting, extracting subtrees, trimming, pruning, condensing, drawing (ASCII graphics or SVG).

Environment Modules

Run module spider newickutils to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_NEWICKUTILS_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_NEWICKUTILS_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses newick_utils you have to cite it as follows:

Thomas Junier, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, The Newick utilities: high-throughput phylogenetic tree processing in the Unix shell, Bioinformatics, Volume 26, Issue 13, July 2010, Pages 1669–1670, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btq243

Categories

biology, genomics, phylogenetics