title: PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses.
abstract: PartitionFinder 2 is a program for automatically selecting best-fit partitioning schemes and models of evolution for phylogenetic analyses. PartitionFinder 2 is substantially faster and more efficient than version 1, and incorporates many new methods and features. These include the ability to analyze morphological datasets, new methods to analyze genome-scale datasets, new output formats to facilitate interoperability with downstream software, and many new models of molecular evolution. PartitionFinder 2 is freely available under an open source license and works on Windows, OSX, and Linux operating systems. It can be downloaded from www.robertlanfear.com/partitionfinder. The source code is available at https://github.com/brettc/partitionfinder.
authors.affiliation: Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.|Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lanfear
authors.affiliation: Office of Research Information Services, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Paul B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Frandsen
authors.affiliation: Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
authors.forename: April M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Tereza
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Senfeld
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Calcott
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005075:Biological Evolution; D003198:Computer Simulation; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016678:Genome; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
keywords: AIC; AICc; BIC; model selection; molecular evolution.; partitioning