Keywords

PSODA, phylogenetic search, PAUP

Abstract

PSODA is an open-source phylogenetic search application that implements traditional parsimony and likelihood search techniques as well as advanced search algorithms. PSODA is compatible with PAUP and the search algorithms are competitive with those in PAUP. PSODA also adds a basic scripting language to the PAUP block, making it possible to easily create advanced meta-searches. Additionally, PSODA provides a user-friendly GUI with real-time graphing visualizations and phylogeny viewer, and a multiple sequence alignment algorithm PSODA is freely available from the PSODA web site: http://csl.cs.byu.edu/psoda.

Original Publication Citation

PSODA: Better Tasting and Less Filling Than PAUP, H. Carroll, M. Ebbert, M. Clement and Q. Snell, Proceedings of the 4th Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium, October 27, pp 74-78.