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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference.

Alexey M Kozlov, Diego Darriba, Tomáš Flouri, Benoit Morel, Alexandros Stamatakis

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2,244 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexey M KozlovComputational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Diego DarribaComputational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Tomáš FlouriComputational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Benoit MorelComputational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Alexandros StamatakisComputational Molecular Evolution Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies · DEKarlsruhe Institute of Technology · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationPhylogenies are important for fundamental biological research, but also have numerous applications in biotechnology, agriculture and medicine. Finding the optimal tree under the popular maximum likelihood (ML) criterion is known to be NP-hard. Thus, highly optimized and scalable codes are needed to analyze constantly growing empirical datasets.

resultsWe present RAxML-NG, a from-scratch re-implementation of the established greedy tree search algorithm of RAxML/ExaML. RAxML-NG offers improved accuracy, flexibility, speed, scalability, and usability compared with RAxML/ExaML. On taxon-rich datasets, RAxML-NG typically finds higher-scoring trees than IQTree, an increasingly popular recent tool for ML-based phylogenetic inference (although IQ-Tree shows better stability). Finally, RAxML-NG introduces several new features, such as the detection of terraces in tree space and the recently introduced transfer bootstrap support metric. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The code is available under GNU GPL at https://github.com/amkozlov/raxml-ng. RAxML-NG web service (maintained by Vital-IT) is available at https://raxml-ng.vital-it.ch/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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