ClockstaR: choosing the number of relaxed-clock models in molecular phylogenetic analysis.
CONCLUSIONS
Relaxed molecular clocks allow the phylogenetic estimation of evolutionary timescales even when substitution rates vary among branches. In analyses of large multigene datasets, it is often appropriate to use multiple relaxed-clock models to accommodate differing patterns of rate variation among genes. We present ClockstaR, a method for selecting the number of relaxed clocks for multigene datasets.


BACKGROUND
ClockstaR is freely available for download at http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/meep/software/.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Sebastián
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Duchêne
Martyna
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Molak
Simon Y W
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D030541:Databases, Genetic; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing / Q000379:methods*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D012985:Software Design