title: COPYCAT: cophylogenetic analysis tool.
abstract: We have developed the software CopyCat which provides an easy and fast access to cophylogenetic analyses. It incorporates a wrapper for the program ParaFit, which conducts a statistical test for the presence of congruence between host and parasite phylogenies. CopyCat offers various features, such as the creation of customized host-parasite association data and the computation of phylogenetic host/parasite trees based on the NCBI taxonomy.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  CopyCat and its manual are freely available at http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Results of the real-world example can be found at http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat or Bioinformatics online.
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics (ZBIT), Sand 14, Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Meier-Kolthoff
authors.forename: Alexander F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Auch
authors.forename: Daniel H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Huson
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Göker
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006790:Host-Parasite Interactions / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface