castor - Efficient Phylogenetics on Large Trees
Efficient phylogenetic analyses on massive phylogenies
comprising up to millions of tips. Functions include pruning,
rerooting, calculation of most-recent common ancestors,
calculating distances from the tree root and calculating
pairwise distances. Calculation of phylogenetic signal and mean
trait depth (trait conservatism), ancestral state
reconstruction and hidden character prediction of discrete
characters, simulating and fitting models of trait evolution,
fitting and simulating diversification models, dating trees,
comparing trees, and reading/writing trees in Newick format.
Citation: Louca, Stilianos and Doebeli, Michael (2017)
<doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx701>.
