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ArticleMolecular biology and evolution2011

MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods.

Koichiro Tamura, Daniel Peterson, Nicholas Peterson, Glen Stecher, Masatoshi Nei, Sudhir Kumar

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Article in Molecular biology and evolution, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14,227 papers.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Koichiro TamuraDepartment of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.
Daniel Peterson
Nicholas Peterson
Glen Stecher
Masatoshi Nei
Sudhir Kumar
Arizona State University · USPennsylvania State University · US

Funding

COMPARATIVE MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANALYSISR01HG002096 · NHGRI · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI KUMAR, SUDHIR · 2000 to 2013
$3.0M
Re-engineering the MEGA software packageR01GM081066 · NIGMS · ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS · PI KUMAR, SUDHIR · 2007 to 2009
$1.0M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Comparative analysis of molecular sequence data is essential for reconstructing the evolutionary histories of species and inferring the nature and extent of selective forces shaping the evolution of genes and species. Here, we announce the release of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 5 (MEGA5), which is a user-friendly software for mining online databases, building sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees, and using methods of evolutionary bioinformatics in basic biology, biomedicine, and evolution. The newest addition in MEGA5 is a collection of maximum likelihood (ML) analyses for inferring evolutionary trees, selecting best-fit substitution models (nucleotide or amino acid), inferring ancestral states and sequences (along with probabilities), and estimating evolutionary rates site-by-site. In computer simulation analyses, ML tree inference algorithms in MEGA5 compared favorably with other software packages in terms of computational efficiency and the accuracy of the estimates of phylogenetic trees, substitution parameters, and rate variation among sites. The MEGA user interface has now been enhanced to be activity driven to make it easier for the use of both beginners and experienced scientists. This version of MEGA is intended for the Windows platform, and it has been configured for effective use on Mac OS X and Linux desktops. It is available free of charge from http://www.megasoftware.net.

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Evolution, MolecularLikelihood FunctionsModels, GeneticAlgorithmsAmino Acid SubstitutionBayes TheoremComputational BiologyComputer SimulationDatabases, GeneticData MiningInternetMolecular BiologyMutationPhylogenySequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID21546353
PMCPMC3203626
OpenAlexW2132632499

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