How to construct the phylogenetic trees using PHYLIP package

PHYLIP is a free package of programs for inferring phylogenies

PHYLIP is a complete phylogenetic analysis package which was developed by Joseph Felsestein at University of Washington. PHYLIP is used to find the evolutionary relationships between different organisms. Some of the methods available in this package are maximum parsimony method, distance matrix and likelihood methods. The data is presented to the program from a text file, which is prepared by the user using common text editors such as word processor, etc. Some of the sequence analysis programs such as ClustalW can write data files in PHYLIP format.

Programs used in PHYLIP :
The following are the methods available in PHYLIP program.
Dnapars: Estimates the phylogeny using parsimony method from nucleic acid sequence.
Dnamove: It is an interactive process used for construction of phylogeny from nucleic acid sequences using parsimony method.
Dnapenny: Estimates the parsimonious phylogeny for nucleic acid sequences which uses branch and bound theory.
Dnacomp: States the phylogeny of nucleic acids and searches for the largest sites which have uniquely evolved on the same tree.
Dnainvar: Computes the nucleic acid sequence which tests the alternative tree topologies. The programs tabulate (chart) the frequencies of occurrences of different nucleotide patterns.
Dnaml: Estimates the phylogenies from nucleotide sequences by maximum likelihood method without assuming molecular clock. Molecular clock defines to calculate timings of evolutionary events.
Dnamlk: It estimates the phylogeny using maximum likelihood method, it assumes the molecular clock.
Dnadist: Dnadist calculates the pair wise distances between the sequences. It also makes a table of percentage similarity among different sequences.
Seqboot: Reads a dataset, and produces multiple datasets by bootstrap resampling. Most of the programs in the current version allow processing of multiple datasets; this can be used together with the consensus tree program CONSENSE.
Concense: Computes consensus trees by the consensus tree method, which can allow one to easily find the consensus tree.
Protpars: Estimates the phylogenies from protein sequences which use parsimony method.
Protdist: It measures the distances of protein sequences using maximum likelihood method which is based on the PAM matrix, JTT model and PBM model. It can give the percentage of similarity among the sequences.
Promol: Estimates phylogeny from amino acid sequences by using maximum likelihood methods. The program allows us to find different changes at known sites. Proml is without a molecular clock.
Promlk: This estimates the phylogeny from amino acid sequence by using maximum likelihood method. It assumes a molecular clock. Molecular clock defines to calculate timings of evolutionary events.
Restml: Estimates the phylogeny using maximum likelihood method with restriction sites data. It does not allow the rate difference between the transitions and transversions.
Restdist: It estimates the phylogeny and calculates the distance from the restriction site data and restriction fragment data.
Fitch: Estimates phylogenies from distance matrix data under “additive tree model”. It uses fitch-Margoliash and some related least square criteria or the distance matrix method. It does not assume the evolutionary clock. The program computes the distance from molecular sequences, fragment distances, and genetic distances calculated from gene frequencies.
Kitsch: Estimates phylogenies from distance matrix data under “Ultrametric model” same as the additive tree model except the evolutionary clock is measured. It is similar to Fitch algorithm.
Neighbor: Neighbor joining is a distance matrix method which will produce an unrooted tree without the assumption of an evolutionary clock. This method is very fast, it can handle large data sets.
Dnadist: It’s a distance matrix method which can be used to find the distances between nucleic acid sequences. This can give the percentage similarity among the sequences.
Protdist: Computes distance between the protein sequences uses maximum likelihood method.
Restdist: Computes the distance calculated from restriction sites data and restriction fragment data.
Drawgram: It estimates the rooted phylogeny, cladograms, circular trees in a wide variety.
Drawtree: It estimates the unrooted phylogeny similar to Drawgram.
Treedist: It estimates the branch lengths, by making use of branch lengths allows for difference in tree topology.

[namphermasharing]

Can we add bootstrap values to the tree?

[mikep]

Hello I get an error that indicates that my sequence is wrong while its not, What is wrong? It happens when I use kitsch or neighbourjoining.

[twilight]

Says its not safe, and my computer is quite decent at downloading viruses lmao. Talking from experience

[AmritaPBB]

Well explained...I am using a very large number of dataset..I am getting the tree but I am not able to zoom in and see the clusters with name Clearly...can you help me?