title: APE: Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R language.
abstract: Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution (APE) is a package written in the R language for use in molecular evolution and phylogenetics. APE provides both utility functions for reading and writing data and manipulating phylogenetic trees, as well as several advanced methods for phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis (e.g. comparative and population genetic methods). APE takes advantage of the many R functions for statistics and graphics, and also provides a flexible framework for developing and implementing further statistical methods for the analysis of evolutionary processes.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The program is free and available from the official R package archive at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html#ape. APE is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Paléobiologie and Phylogénie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université Montpellier II, F-34095 Montpellier cédex 05, France. paradis@isem.univ-montp2.fr
authors.forename: Emmanuel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paradis
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Claude
authors.forename: Korbinian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Strimmer
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003196:Computer Graphics; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005828:Genetics, Population / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface