title: LVB: parsimony and simulated annealing in the search for phylogenetic trees.
abstract: The program LVB seeks parsimonious phylogenies from nucleotide alignments, using the simulated annealing heuristic. LVB runs fast and gives high quality results.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The software is available at http://www.rubic.reading.ac.uk/lvb/
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION may be downloaded from http://www.rubic.reading.ac.uk/~daniel/
authors.affiliation: School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 228, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AJ, UK. d.barker@reading.ac.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barker
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005075:Biological Evolution; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software