Software

software

Most of these are open source!

Dataset formatting

TextWrangler

Alignment

Clustal (try this tutorial if you have questions)

PRANK

MAFFT

MacClade

Tree building

CIPRES

PAUP*

MrBayes

Tree viewing/figure making

TreeView

FigTree

Dating divergence times

r8s

multidivtime (from the Multidistribute package)

BEAST

Multi-use software packages

CLC Workbench

PAML

Phylip

Cloud Computing

 Amazon Web Services

Public Databases

Arachnoserver

NCBI

 

Software Resources

Joe Felsenstein’s list of phylogeny programs