cyberneticlibrary

Build phylogenetic trees and visualizations

phylogeneticsskillsetup L327,559
K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
What it does

Infer evolutionary trees from sequence alignments and fossil data

Best for

Comparative genomics and evolutionary hypothesis testing

Inputs
  • · aligned sequences (FASTA/Phylip)
  • · divergence times
  • · fossil calibrations
Outputs
  • · phylogenetic tree (Newick)
  • · branch support values
  • · divergence time estimates
Requires
  • · PAML
  • · RAxML
  • · MrBayes
  • · BEAST
Preconditions

Sequences aligned; molecular clock model chosen

Failure modes

Poor sequence quality; insufficient taxa; clock model misspecified