Abstract

Abstract ModelTest-NG is a reimplementation from scratch of jModelTest and ProtTest, two popular tools for selecting the best-fit nucleotide and amino acid substitution models, respectively. ModelTest-NG is one to two orders of magnitude faster than jModelTest and ProtTest but equally accurate and introduces several new features, such as ascertainment bias correction, mixture, and free-rate models, or the automatic processing of single partitions. ModelTest-NG is available under a GNU GPL3 license at https://github.com/ddarriba/modeltest , last accessed September 2, 2019.

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BiologyScalabilitySubstitution (logic)Selection (genetic algorithm)Protein evolutionComputational biologyScratchGeneticsComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceProgramming languageGeneDatabase

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Amino Acid SubstitutionEvolutionMolecularGenetic TechniquesModelsGeneticSoftware

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Year
2019
Type
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Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
291-294
Citations
1905
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Diego Darriba, David Posada, Alexey M. Kozlov et al. (2019). ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution , 37 (1) , 291-294. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz189

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10.1093/molbev/msz189
PMID
31432070
PMCID
PMC6984357

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