The New York Times has an article talking about constructing and especially visualizing the tree of life called “Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life“. Its interesting, especially since I think it touches on many issues concerning tree size that even phylogenetic biologists haven’t really considered. There are lots of talk of “big” trees,…
Tag: ARB
SILVA94
There is a new release (94) of the SILVA database of ribosomal DNA sequences. 23,133 Metazoans, 88,997 Eukaryotes and 606,879 SSU sequences in total.I’m having a few problems installing ARB on a new machine but need to start exploring this phenomenal phylogenetic resource more closely. One thing I would love when browsing large trees purely…
ARB- a phylogenetic environment
ARB is a database program for sequence data, alignments and trees. It is primarily used by the microbial rDNA community, although it is equally powerful for other genes and taxonomic groups. ARB is my primary productivity software for phylogenetics and I thought I would introduce it briefly. “The ARB software is a graphically oriented package…
EvoPhylo 