CONSEL: for assessing the confidence of phylogenetic tree selection

Bioinformatics. 2001 Dec;17(12):1246-7. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/17.12.1246.

Abstract

CONSEL is a program to assess the confidence of the tree selection by giving the p-values for the trees. The main thrust of the program is to calculate the p-value of the Approximately Unbiased (AU) test using the multi-scale bootstrap technique. This p-value is less biased than the other conventional p-values such as the Bootstrap Probability (BP), the Kishino-Hasegawa (KH) test, the Shimodaira-Hasegawa (SH) test, and the Weighted Shimodaira-Hasegawa (WSH) test. CONSEL calculates all these p-values from the output of the phylogeny program packages such as Molphy, PAML, and PAUP*. Furthermore, CONSEL is applicable to a wide class of problems where the BPs are available.

Availability: The programs are written in C language. The source code for Unix and the executable binary for DOS are found at http://www.ism.ac.jp/~shimo/

Contact: shimo@ism.ac.jp

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Likelihood Functions*
  • Phylogeny
  • Software*