Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments and molecular data

Abstract

SUMMARY: Phyutility provides a set of phyloinformatics tools for summarizing and manipulating phylogenetic trees, manipulating molecular data and retrieving data from NCBI. Its simple command-line interface allows for easy integration into scripted analyses, and is able to handle large datasets with an integrated database. AVAILABILITY: Phyutility, including source code, documentation, examples, and executables, is available at http://code.google.com/p/phyutility.