A format for phylogenetic placements.

We have developed a unified format for phylogenetic placements, that is, mappings of environmental sequence data (e.g., short reads) into a phylogenetic tree. We are motivated to do so by the growing number of tools for computing and post-processing phylogenetic placements, and the lack of an establ...

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Main Authors: Frederick A Matsen, Noah G Hoffman, Aaron Gallagher, Alexandros Stamatakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3284489?pdf=render