Bio.Phylo: A unified toolkit for processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic trees in Biopython

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Talevich, Eric ^a   Invergo, Brandon M ^b   Cock, Peter J A ^c   Chapman, Brad A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC TRANSFORMATIONS; BIOLOGICAL DATA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FILE FORMATS; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; PHYLOGENETICS; REUSABLE SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; WEB SERVERS; WORK-FLOWS;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DATA INTEGRATION;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; PHYLOGENY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84865083935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-209     Document Type: Article

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