title: CONSEL: for assessing the confidence of phylogenetic tree selection.
abstract: CONSEL is a program to assess the confidence of the tree selection by giving the p-values for the trees. The main thrust of the program is to calculate the p-value of the Approximately Unbiased (AU) test using the multi-scale bootstrap technique. This p-value is less biased than the other conventional p-values such as the Bootstrap Probability (BP), the Kishino-Hasegawa (KH) test, the Shimodaira-Hasegawa (SH) test, and the Weighted Shimodaira-Hasegawa (WSH) test. CONSEL calculates all these p-values from the output of the phylogeny program packages such as Molphy, PAML, and PAUP*. Furthermore, CONSEL is applicable to a wide class of problems where the BPs are available.
  
  
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  The programs are written in C language. The source code for Unix and the executable binary for DOS are found at http://www.ism.ac.jp/~shimo/
  
  
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  shimo@ism.ac.jp
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 4-6-7 Minami-Azabu, Minatoku, Tokyo 106-8569, Japan. shimo@ism.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shimodaira
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
mesh_terms: D016013:Likelihood Functions; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software