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Here are 367 phylogeny packages and 53 free web servers, all that I know about. It is an attempt to be completely comprehensive. I have not made any attempt to exclude programs that do not meet some standard of quality or importance. Updates to these pages are made roughly monthly. Here is a "waiting list" of new programs waiting to have their full entries constructed. Many of the programs in these pages are available on the web, and some of the older ones are also available from ftp server machines.

The programs listed below include both free and non-free ones; in some cases I do not know whether a program is free. I have listed as free those that I knew were free; for the others you have to ask their distributor. Usually when I say that a program is downloadable from a web site, this means that it is available free.

Email addresses in these pages have had the @ symbol replaced by (at) and also surrounded by invisible confusing tags and blank characters in hopes of foiling spambots that harvest email addresses.

If you discover any inaccuracies, or feel that I have left any important programs or facts out, or if links do not work properly, please e-mail me at: (joe (at) gs.washington.edu). You can also use the submission form here to submit new entries.

... by methods available

... by computer systems on which they work

... cross-referenced by method and by computer system.

... by ones which analyze particular kinds of data.

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... to show ones most recently changed

Phylogeny programs formerly listed here but no longer distributed

Which kinds of programs are and are not listed

Other lists of phylogeny software

New programs waiting to be added

General-purpose packages

• PHYLIP
• PAUP*
• MEGA
• Phylo_win
• ARB
• DAMBE
• PAL
• Bionumerics
• Mesquite
• PaupUp
• BIRCH
• Bosque
• EMBOSS
• phangorn
• Bio++
• ETE
• DendroPy

Parsimony programs

PHYLIP PAUP* Hennig86 MEGA RA NONA CAFCA PHYLIP Phylo_win sog gmaes LVB GeneTree ARB DAMBE MALIGN POY Gambit TNT GelCompar II Bionumerics Network TCS GAPars CRANN

Mesquite PAST FootPrinter BPAnalysis Simplot Parsimov NimbleTree PaupUp Notung BIRCH IDEA PSODA PRAP SeqState Bosque PhyloNet EMBOSS phangorn Murka Freqpars

Distance matrix methods

PHYLIP PAUP* MEGA MacT ODEN TREECON DISPAN RESTSITE NTSYSpc METREE GDA SeqPup PHYLTEST Lintre Phylo_win POPTREE2 Gambit gmaes DENDRON BIONJ TFPGA MVSP ARB Darwin

T-REX sendbs nneighbor DAMBE weighbor DNASIS MINSPNET PAL Arlequin PEBBLE HY-PHY Vanilla GelCompar II Bionumerics qclust TCS Populations Winboot SYN-TAX PTP SplitsTree FastME APE MacVector QuickTree

Simplot ProfDist START2 STC NimbleTree CBCAnalyzer PaupUp Geneious BIRCH SEMPHY FASTML Rate4Site SWORDS IDEA FAMD Bosque GAME Bioinformatics_Toolbox TreeFit EMBOSS phangorn PC-ORD Bio++ UGENE NINJA

Computation of distances

PHYLIP PAUP* RAPDistance MULTICOMP Microsat DIPLOMO OSA DISPAN RESTSITE NTSYSpc TREE-PUZZLE GCUA DERANGE2 POPGENE TFPGA REAP MVSP RSTCALC Genetix DISTANCE Darwin sendbs Arlequin DAMBE DnaSP

PAML puzzleboot PAL Vanilla GelCompar II Bionumerics qclust Populations Winboot FSTAT SYN-TAX Phylo_win Phyltools MSA APE YCDMA NSA T-REX LDDist DIVAGE Genepop START2 Swaap Swaap PH SPAGeDi

CBCAnalyzer PaupUp SEMPHY SWORDS rRNA phylogeny FAMD GAME Bioinformatics_Toolbox GenoDive analysis TreeFit EMBOSS Murka Bio++ UGENE POPTREE2 DISTREE

Maximum likelihood methods

PHYLIP PAUP* fastDNAml MOLPHY PAML Spectrum SplitsTree TREE-PUZZLE SeqPup Phylo_win PASSML ARB Darwin Modeltest PAL dnarates HY-PHY Vanilla DT-ModSel Bionumerics fastDNAmlRev RevDNArates rate-evolution CONSEL EDIBLE

PLATO Mesquite PTP Treefinder MetaPIGA RAxML PHASE PHYML r8s-bootstrap MrMTgui MrModeltest BootPHYML PARBOOT p4 Porn* SIMMAP Spectronet Rhino TipDate IMa2 ProtTest ModelGenerator Simplot MrAIC Modelfit

IQPNNI PARAT ALIFRITZ PhyNav DPRML MultiPhyl NimbleTree PaupUp SSA CoMET BIRCH Mac5 Kakusan4 GARLI PHYSIG SEMPHY FASTML Rate4Site aLRT McRate EREM IDEA PROCOV DART PhyloCoCo

PRAP SeqState Leaphy NHML SLR rRNA phylogeny Bosque Concaterpillar PHYLLAB NEPAL EMBOSS CodeAxe phangorn Bio++ FastTree nhPhyML PhyML-Multi

Bayesian inference methods

PAML BAMBE DAMBE PAL Vanilla MrBayes Mesquite PHASE BEAST MrBayes tree scanners p4 SIMMAP IMa2 BAli-Phy BayesPhylogenies MrBayesPlugin PhyloBayes Cadence Multidivtime BEST AMBIORE PHYLLAB bms_runner tracer burntrees

Bio++

Quartets methods

• TREE-PUZZLE
• SplitsTree
• PHYLTEST
• GEOMETRY
• PICA
• Darwin
• PhyloQuart
• Willson quartets programs
• Gambit
• IQPNNI
• STC
• Quartet Suite
• LEVEL2
• Bosque

Artificial-intelligence and genetic algorithms methods

• PTP
• GAPars
• MetaPIGA
• GARLI

Invariants (or Evolutionary Parsimony) methods

• PHYLIP
• PAUP*
• PaupUp
• BIRCH
• EMBOSS

Interactive tree manipulation

MacClade PHYLIP PDAP TreeTool ARB WINCLADA TreeEdit TreeExplorer TreeThief RadCon Mavric T-REX EDIBLE Mesquite Treefinder TreeView TreeJuxtaposer TreeMe ArboDraw Notung TreeDyn TreeMaker MESA BIRCH SimpleClade

Dendroscope Forest Phylocom TreeToy Bioinformatics_Toolbox Phyutility EMBOSS PhyloWidget Phybase ETE TreeGraph 2

Looking for hybridization or recombination events

RecPars TOPALi partimatrix Network TCS T-REX PLATO PPH Spectronet IMa2 Simplot START2 Likewind DualBrothers cBrother EEEP HGT PhyloNet EvolSimulator Concaterpillar PhyML-Multi RDP3

Bootstrapping and other measures of support (for Bayesian support methods see the Bayesian inference list above).

PHYLIP PAUP* Random Cladistics AutoDecay TreeRot DNA Stacks OSA DISPAN PHYLTEST Lintre sog POPTREE2 MEGA PARBOOT PICA ModelTest TAXEQ3 BAMBE DAMBE puzzleboot CodonBootstrap Gambit PAL MrBayes CONSEL

Populations LVB EDIBLE Winboot Mesquite Phylo_win PAST Treefinder RAxML Phyltools PHASE PHYML BEAST r8s-bootstrap MrBayes tree scanners T-REX MrMTgui MrModeltest BootPHYML Porn* ProtTest ModelGenerator Simplot Permute! ELW

MultiPhyl GHOSTS PaupUp Geneious BIRCH BayesPhylogenies scaleboot aLRT PhyloBayes SWORDS CTree PRAP FAMD PhyloNet PHYLLAB Phyutility EMBOSS FastTree Bionumerics tracer burntrees Bio++

Compatibility analysis

• COMPROB
• PHYLIP
• PICA
• partimatrix
• PPH
• Spectronet
• BIRCH
• EMBOSS
• Murka
• Phybase

Consensus trees, subtrees, supertrees, and distances between trees

COMPONENT TREEMAP NTSYSpc PHYLIP PAUP* REDCON TAXEQ3 MEGA RadCon Mesquite PAST Treefinder Robinson and Foulds distance Clann PhyNav SuperTree Supertree scripts PaupUp Supertree BIRCH HeuristicMRF2 TopD/fMts Quartet Suite Rainbow PhySIC_IST

EEEP PhyloSort FAMD PhyloNet Phyutility EMBOSS phangorn Murka RAxML Phybase

Tree-based sequence alignment

• TreeAlign
• ClustalW
• MALIGN
• GeneDoc
• DAMBE
• POY
• ALIGN
• DNASIS
• FootPrinter
• ALIFRITZ
• T-Coffee
• ArboDraw
• BAli-Phy
• Geneious
• BIRCH
• MAFFT
• LOBSTER
• DART
• MUSCLE
• Bosque
  
• EMBOSS

Gene duplication and genomic analysis

• DERANGE2
• FORESTER
• BPAnalysis
• Notung
• TopD/fMts
• DTscore
• DART
• gtp
• EvolSimulator
• DTdraw
• Mgenome
• Tree Tracker
• bms_runner
• MANTiS
• ETE

Biogeographic analysis and host-parasite comparison

• COMPONENT
• TREEMAP
• DIVA
• TreeFitter
• GEODIS
• Tarzan
• ParaFit
• Phylocom
• AxParafit
• GenGIS
• S-DIVA

Comparative method analysis

PHYLIP CAIC COMPARE PDAP ANCML RIND MacroCAIC Phylogenetic Independence MacClade Mesquite APE Jevtrace SIMMAP PHYLOGR TreeSAAP Permute! Parsimov DIVERGE IDC OUCH BIRCH BayesTraits PHYSIG Cactus-Pie

Phylocom pcca EMBOSS bms_runner SLOUCH Phybase

Simulation of trees or data

COMPONENT Seq-Gen Treevolve and PTreevolve PSeq-Gen COMPARE ROSE PAML ProSeq PAL Vanilla MacClade EDIBLE Mesquite Treefinder Network Phylogen MESA SGRunner apTreeshape Simprot EREM indel-Seq-Gen DAWG EvolveAGene3

EvolSimulator

Examination of shapes of trees

• MacroCAIC
• Genie
• PAL
• Vanilla
• RadCon
• BRANCHLENGTH
• APE
• Tracer
• SymmeTREE
• TreeScan
• MESA
• apTreeshape
• TreeStat
• CTree
• Phyutility
• laser

Clocks, dating and stratigraphy

PHYLIP QDate Modeltest PAML RRTree PEBBLE TreeEdit HY-PHY MEGA PAL rate-evolution BRANCHLENGTH r8s PAST Treefinder Network APE BEAST MrMTgui MrModeltest SymmeTREE Porn* TipDate Rhino GHOSTS Cadence

Multidivtime CodonRates BIRCH Brownie PATHd8 McRate PhyloBayes Cactus-Pie GRate NHML TreeFit PHYLTEST Murka

Model Selection

• Modeltest
• MrMTgui
• MrModeltest
• Porn*
• ModelGenerator
• ProtTest
• MrAIC
• Modelfit
• DT-ModSel
• BayesTraits
• Kakusan4
• MAPPS
• DART
• Concaterpillar

Description or prediction of data from trees

• CONSERVE
• TreeDis
• EDIBLE
• RIND
• Jevtrace
• SIMMAP
• TreeSAAP
• DIVERGE
• MESA
• FASTML

Tree plotting/drawing

PHYLIP PAUP* TreeTool TreeView NJplot DendroMaker Tree Draw Deck Phylodendron ARB unrooted DAMBE TREECON Mavric TreeExplorer TreeThief Bionumerics FORESTER MacClade MEGA Mesquite Phylogenetic Tree Drawing APE T-REX TreeJuxtaposer Spectronet

TreeSetViz TreeGraph 2 ArboDraw PaupUp Notung TreeDyn DigTree Geneious BIRCH Paloverde MrEnt FigTree HyperTree GeoPhyloBuilder Dendroscope CTree TreeToy TreeSnatcher Plus DTdraw PHYLLAB Bioinformatics_Toolbox EMBOSS PhyloWidget GenGIS Bio++

S-DIVA UGENE ETE POPTREE2

Sequence management/job submission

Random Cladistics GDE MUST 2000 DNA Stacks SeqPup PARBOOT ARB DAMBE BioEdit Singapore PHYLIP web interface Bionumerics W2H Phyledit GeneStudio Pro Simplot DPRML NimbleTree Geneious BIRCH TOPALi MBEToolbox PISE Bosque Bioinformatics_Toolbox

EMBOSS PyCogent PHYDIT

Teaching about phylogenies

• Phylogenetic Investigator
• Phylap
• Dnatree
• SimpleClade

Unix (source code in C or executables)

PC's

... under Windows

... under DOS or in a Windows Command tool "DOS box"

Macintoshes (under Mac OS X or Mac OS)

e-mail or Web servers that can analyze data for you

• Unix (source code in C or executables). I have included programs that are available as C source code because most Unix workstations have a C compiler. (Programs in other compiled languages such as FORTRAN and Pascal, and in interpreted languages such as Java, Perl, Python, or R are also included), as are Java executables. For many of these the programs can also be compiled or run on Windows or Mac OS X systems if they have the appropriate compilers or interpreters loaded.

  PHYLIP PAUP* Phylo_win ODEN SeqPup Lintre Microsat OSA TREE-PUZZLE fastDNAml MOLPHY PAML SplitsTree PHYLTEST TreeAlign ClustalW MALIGN GeneDoc COMPARE Seq-Gen TreeTool GDE sog Phylodendron Treevolve and PTreevolve	PSeq-Gen POPTREE2 gmaes GCUA DERANGE2 LVB BIONJ ANCML QDate PASSML TOPALi RecPars PARBOOT ARB DISTANCE Darwin sendbs partimatrix BAMBE nneighbor unrooted ROSE weighbor PhyloQuart	puzzleboot Willson quartets programs POY RIND RRTree PAL Mavric dnarates Arlequin HY-PHY Genie Vanilla PEBBLE qclust fastDNAmlRev RevDNArates BRANCHLENGTH TCS CONSEL FORESTER Populations T-REX MrBayes W2H GAPars	EDIBLE r8s Mesquite Treefinder PPH PLATO MetaPIGA FastME MSA Phylogenetic Tree Drawing APE PHASE PHYML BEAST TreeView r8s-bootstrap MrBayes tree scanners Robinson and Foulds distance Clann Jevtrace MrMTgui MrModeltest BootPHYML SymmeTREE TreeJuxtaposer LDDist	p4 Porn* TNT Phylogen Rhino TipDate Phylap Dnatree QuickTree IMa2 FootPrinter BPAnalysis ProtTest GEODIS TreeScan TreeSetViz ModelGenerator PHYLOGR ProfDist MrAIC Modelfit IQPNNI PARAT ALIFRITZ PhyNav
  STC TreeSAAP Likewind ELW TreeGraph 2 Supertree scripts Parsimov DPRML Bosque DIVERGE T-Coffee MultiPhyl CBCAnalyzer GHOSTS Tarzan DT-ModSel DualBrothers Notung apTreeshape Multidivtime Mgenome ParaFit IDC TreeMaker CodonRates	BAli-Phy Supertree CoMET OUCH TreeDyn DigTree Geneious BIRCH Brownie Mac5 BayesPhylogenies BayesTraits Paloverde HeuristicMRF2 CRANN Kakusan4 PATHd8 MAFFT GARLI TreeStat FigTree PHYSIG scaleboot cBrother RAxML	MrBayesPlugin LOBSTER SEMPHY FASTML Rate4Site TopD/fMts Quartet Suite Rainbow McRate HyperTree PhyloBayes Cactus-Pie SWORDS Dendroscope Forest Phylocom PhySIC_IST Simprot BEST pcca EREM IDEA indel-Seq-Gen MBEToolbox DTscore	PROCOV DART EEEP PhyloCoCo DAWG LEVEL2 PSODA PhyloSort PISE MUSCLE AMBIORE CTree PRAP SeqState HGT NHML SLR rRNA phylogeny AxParafit EvolveAGene3 gtp TreeToy TreeSnatcher Plus PhyloNet EvolSimulator	Concaterpillar GAME DTdraw NEPAL PHYLLAB Bioinformatics_Toolbox Tree Tracker analysis CodeAxe Phyutility EMBOSS phangorn FastTree PhyloWidget laser bms_runner tracer burntrees SLOUCH Murka MANTiS Freqpars GenGIS CONSERVE Bio++
  UGENE DISTREE Phybase ETE PyCogent DendroPy CAIC NINJA MUST nhPhyML PhyML-Multi

• PC's
  • as Windows executables (not counting executing in a "DOS box"). Programs available as source code which is Windows-specific are listed here. Java executables are also included. (Note that compilers available on Windows systems, particularly the free Cygwin and MinGW compilers, can also be used to compile many of the programs listed above under Unix generic source code). Programs run in interpreted environments such as Perl, Python, R or MATLAB can also be run under Windows if the proper environment is installed. These programs are listed above under Unix.

    PHYLIP PAUP* TREECON GDA SeqPup MOLPHY GeneDoc COMPONENT TREEMAP COMPARE RAPDistance TreeView Phylodendron POPGENE TFPGA GeneTree MVSP RSTCALC Genetix NJplot unrooted Arlequin DAMBE DnaSP PAML	DNASIS MINSPNET BioEdit ProSeq PAL WINCLADA NONA Phylogenetic Independence PEBBLE HY-PHY TreeExplorer Genie Vanilla MEGA TNT GelCompar II Bionumerics TCS FORESTER Populations T-REX MrBayes EDIBLE Winboot r8s	Mesquite Phyledit SYN-TAX PTP DIVA TreeFitter Phylo_win SplitsTree PAST GeneStudio Pro Treefinder PPH MetaPIGA Phyltools MSA Mgenome APE PHASE PHYML YCDMA NSA BEAST Clann Jevtrace MrMTgui	MrModeltest SymmeTREE TreeJuxtaposer Network Spectronet Phylogen Phylap Dnatree IMa2 ProtTest GEODIS TreeSetViz TreeMe ModelGenerator Simplot PHYLOGR ProfDist START2 IQPNNI STC TreeSAAP Swaap Swaap PH TreeGraph 2 DIVERGE	MESA MultiPhyl NimbleTree ArboDraw SPAGeDi CBCAnalyzer DualBrothers PaupUp Notung SSA Multidivtime ParaFit IDC TreeMaker CodonRates BAli-Phy CoMET TreeDyn DigTree Geneious Brownie Mac5 BayesPhylogenies BayesTraits MrEnt
    SimpleClade CRANN PATHd8 MAFFT GARLI TreeStat FigTree MrBayesPlugin LOBSTER SEMPHY FASTML Rate4Site Quartet Suite Rainbow aLRT McRate HyperTree SWORDS GeoPhyloBuilder Dendroscope Phylocom TOPALi Simprot BEST pcca	EREM MBEToolbox DTscore EEEP LEVEL2 PSODA PhyloSort RAxML MUSCLE CTree PRAP SeqState Leaphy GRate SLR rRNA phylogeny FAMD AxParafit DTscore PROCOV DART EEEP CONSERVE PhyloCoCo DAWG	EvolveAGene3 Bosque TreeToy TreeSnatcher Plus PhyloNet GAME TreeFit FastTree PhyloWidget tracer Murka MANTiS PC-ORD GenGIS Bio++ S-DIVA UGENE Phybase ETE Cactus-Pie NINJA PHYDIT POPTREE2 RDP3

  • under DOS (MSDOS, PCDOS) or in a Command Tool "DOS box" in Windows

    PHYLIP PAUP* MEGA Hennig86 MEGA RA NONA TREECON Microsat DISPAN RESTSITE NTSYSpc METREE PHYLTEST RAPDistance DIPLOMO TREE-PUZZLE ClustalW MALIGN GeneDoc Random Cladistics POPTREE2 GEOMETRY PDAP PICA

    REDCON TAXEQ3 BIONJ ANCML REAP MVSP Lintre T-REX sendbs weighbor POY TreeDis Network Gambit qclust CONSEL LVB FSTAT SYN-TAX FastME MSA QDate Robinson and Foulds distance DIVAGE BPAnalysis

    TreeScan Genepop Kakusan4 DISTREE

• Macintosh Mac OS X or Mac OS executables. Java executables are also included. (Note that most of the programs in the Unix/Linux list above can also be compiled for Mac OS X using the GCC compiler that is distributed with Mac OS X). Programs run in the interpreted environments Perl and Python can also be run in Mac OS X as these are included in the Mac OS X distribution. We have not yet included these in the list below but should. R or MATLAB can also be run under Mac OS X if the proper environment is installed. These programs are listed above under Unix.

  PHYLIP PAUP* MacT SeqPup Microsat TREE-PUZZLE fastDNAml MacClade Spectrum SplitsTree AutoDecay CAFCA ClustalW TREEMAP CAIC COMPARE Seq-Gen CONSERVE TreeView NJplot DendroMaker MUST DNA Stacks Phylogenetic Investigator Tree Draw Deck	Phylodendron TreeRot Treevolve and PTreevolve PSeq-Gen BIONJ GCUA GeneTree QDate LVB T-REX unrooted COMPONENT Lite weighbor Modeltest PAML Willson quartets programs ALIGN CodonBootstrap DNASIS PLATO MacroCAIC PAL RadCon TreeEdit Arlequin	PEBBLE HY-PHY TreeThief Genie Vanilla TCS MrBayes FORESTER r8s GDA Mesquite SYN-TAX DIVA TreeFitter Phylo_win Treefinder PPH MetaPIGA MSA PHYML BEAST Robinson and Foulds distance Clann Jevtrace MrModeltest	BootPHYML SymmeTREE TreeJuxtaposer MacVector SIMMAP TNT Phylogen Rhino TipDate Phylap Dnatree ProtTest GEODIS TreeScan TreeSetViz ModelGenerator PHYLOGR ProfDist IQPNNI TreeSAAP Permute! MESA MultiPhyl SGRunner DualBrothers	Notung Cadence ParaFit TreeMaker BAli-Phy Supertree CoMET TreeDyn Geneious Brownie Mac5 BayesPhylogenies BayesTraits Paloverde CRANN MAPPS PATHd8 MAFFT GARLI TreeStat FigTree MrBayesPlugin SEMPHY Quartet Suite Rainbow	HyperTree Kakusan4 SWORDS Dendroscope Phylocom PhySIC_IST TOPALi BEST pcca indel-Seq-Gen PhyloCoCo LEVEL2 PSODA PhyloSort RAxML MUSCLE CTree PRAP SeqState SLR AxParafit EvolveAGene3 TreeToy TreeSnatcher Plus PhyloNet
  GAME GenoDive PhyloWidget tracer MANTiS GenGIS Bio++ UGENE Phybase ETE PyCogent DendroPy NEPAL NINJA Bosque TreeGraph 2

Here are the packages that have most recently been added to these listings: (the most recent ones first). Entries are retained in this list for 6 months. Note also below the "waiting list" area listing programs that are to be added. You can use the submission form here to submit new entries.

FootPrinter server uses parsimony to search for similar upstream control sequences (18 December 2010) MicroFootPrinter server finds microbial sequences similar to a sequence and runs the FootPrinter web server on them all (18 December 2010) PhyloPars server uses Brownian Motion models to reconstruct missing data (15 December 2010) PhyML-Multi Infers recombination events using a likelihood criterion (13 December 2010) nhPhyML A local-rearrangements-only version of PHYML for nonhomogenous DNA models (13 December 2010) NINJA A fast Neighbor-Joining program for large numbers of species (6 November 2010) Icong web server computing a measure and test of tree congruence (11 September 2010) DendroPy Python library for phylogenetic computing (7 September 2010) PyCogent a Python framework which can submit jobs to several phylogeny programs (6 September 2010) ETE, a Python programming toolkit for manipulating trees (8 August 2010) REFGEN and TREENAMER web servers to replace names by identifiers and vice versa (24 July 2010) Phybase R package for tree operations especially for species trees (17 July 2010)

• There is one phylogeny software list even more complete and up-to-date than this one: a more recent version of this list. If you are reading this on the web pages at our server evolution.gs.washington.edu, you are reading the most up-to-date version. But if you are reading a version stored anywhere else, you might want to look here instead.
• Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis has posted an extensive table of phylogeny programs at his site at the American Museum of Natural History, and near it are others under headings such as "molecular evolution" and "alignment".
• Georg Fuellen at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, has a very good page on Multiple Alignment Resources at http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/MulAli/welcome.html. It is described as "only updated occasionally"; the most recent links are about 2006.
• Wikipedia has a good list of sequence alignment software (including both tree-based and non-tree-based alignment methods) here at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sequence_alignment_software
• David Robertson of the Bioinformatics Education and Research at the University of Manchester, England, maintains a very informative web site at listing programs and their web sites that test for the presence of recombination or hybridization events in DNA sequence data. It lists some programs that are covered here, and others that are outside the scope of these web pages. That site is located at http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/~robertson/recombination/programs.shtml.
• Mike Robeson at the University of Colorado maintains a page with multiple programs listed as Bioinformatics software for Mac OS X.
• The Bioinformatics Organization, a nonprofit group in Hudson, Massachusetts, has posted the bioinformatics.org web pages. These offer a free membership and host open source software projects in bioinformatics. They also have a Molecular Linux listing of Linux programs to carry out bioinformatics tasks, which can be sorted by keywords.
• On Wikipedia there is a List of phylogenetic tree visualization software at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phylogenetic_tree_visualization_software
• Richard Christen at the Université de Nice, France, has a list of Tree and Tree-software for visualisation and manipulations dealing with phylogenetic trees at http://bioinfo.unice.fr/biodiv/Tree_editors.html
• Don Gilbert, of the Department of Biology of the University of Indiana, has a good web page on Free Software in Molecular Biology for Macintosh and MS Windows computers as of 1998 at http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/molbio/Listings.html. It lists some popular packages and all packages and programs kept at the IUBio ftp server at that time (see our description of that server). Unfortunately the web links on that page are not active so the addresses must be copied out and pasted into the URL box of your browser.
• Silvio Nihei at the University of São Paulo in Brazil has produced a list: Programas para Filogenia (Morfológica) e Biogeografi in Portugese. It concentrates on a small number of programs that mostly use parsimony methods.

This is a "waiting list" showing links to the web pages of many new phylogeny programs, which I have not yet had time to add to the main listing. They will be listed there, with a single web link and no detailed explanation. I hope that this list will gradually shrink as the new programs are put into the main listing. You can use the submission form here to submit new entries.

These are waiting to be added:

This bunch are all old programs from Masatoshi Nei's lab, available from the same web page there

• GZ-Gamma estimates Gamma parameter of rate variation
• Statio tests stationarity of composition of sequences and tests models
• TIMER estimates divergence times using a linearized tree approach
• Ancestor infers ancestral amino acid sequences
• Anc-gene infers ancestral amino acid sequences when tree is known
• Bn-Bs estimates synonymous and nonsynonymous distances and then least squares tree
• HON-new estimates conservative and radical amino acid distances between sequences

• PAUPRat generates a file of commands enabling PAUP* to carry out the “ratchet” search strategy.
• Archaeopteryx tree viewer is a successor to ATV which was in the Forester package.
• Crux package of Python modules for likelihood, Bayesian, and distance methods.
• PhyloExplorer web server and software to validate, explore and query phylogenies with regard to a reference taxonomy.
• jModeltest, a standalone Java replacement for ModelTest
• PhyRe infers adequacy of taxon sampling for phylogenetic studies.
• phylobase is an R package that contains a class of functions for comparative methods, incorporating one or more trees and trait data.
• PhyML-mixtures, a PhyML version for mixture of amino acid models (EX2, EX3, EHO, UL2, and UL3).
• PhyD*, Fast NJ-like algorithms to deal with incomplete distance matrices.
• SDM a fast distance-based approach for tree and supertree building in phylogenomics.
• SSIMUL does speciation signal extraction from multigene families.
• Clearcut carries out Relaxed Neighbor Joining (RNJ), a faster NJ-like distance method.
• MP-EST (also described here) uses trees from different loci to infer a species tree by a pseudo-maximum-likelihood method.
• CoRe-PA reconstructs the coevolutionary history of host-parasite systems using an event-based method to find cost minimal reconstructions.
• TreeRogue, an R script for getting trees from published figures of them.
• Serial NetEvolve simulation program evolves serially-sampled sequences with or without recombination.
• Rococo reconstructs ancestral gene clusters for a multigene family on a given tree.

• 3item extracts 3-item statements from "areagrams", whatever that means, but can only be accessed by joining their Yahoo group. So I don't really know what it does.
• Dependency v2.1 uses Multiple Interdependency to detect functional interactions between amino acids in proteins. Does not seem to actually use a phylogeny.
• Codep Maximizes co-evolutionary interdependencies to discover interacting proteins. Also does not seem to actually use a phylogeny.
• PhyloGrapher shows clustering relationships between genes in a genome based on a distance matrix. But is it a phylogeny program?
• Phylosopher commercial package for functional genomics said to include some phylogeny functions. Does it?
• Phylogenator server displaying aligned sequences -- does it actually use or construct phylogenies?
• MultiLocus calculates multiple-locus measures of population differentiation from population genetic data. But unless someone can show me that it can calculate a measure of distance between two populations within a data set, it does not seem appropriate for this list.
• CIPRES-KEPLER Java-based framework for organizing workflow and submitting jobs. I am not sure whether any specifically phylogeny-based pieces have yet been supplied with this.

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