Tarzan

Compute any cheapest reconstruction
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  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Parallel Computing and Complex Systems
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
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  • 133 KB

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Tarzan Description

Tarzan application uses an event-based method that enables users to find cost minimal or reconstructions or reconstructions that have a minimal (or maximal) number of certain evolutionary events. Five different types of evolutionary events are considered: cospeciation, duplication, sorting, switching, and extinction. For host parasite systemes cospeciation events refer to simultaneous host and parasite speciation, duplication events are independent parasite speciations, sorting events correspond to lineage sorting, and switches correspond to host shifts. Main features: Tarzan offers not only the possibility to compute any cheapest reconstruction but can also compute reconstruction that are computed to other criteria. Moreover, a hierarchy of criteria can be defined (in that case optimization is done first with respect to the most important criterion, then within all found optimimal solutions optimization is done with respect to the second highest criterion and so forth. Possible criteria are (in each case minimum or a maximum is possible): cost, number of cospeciations, number of dupliciations, number of sortings, number of host switches, number of extictions The maximal number of cheapest reconstructions that are be computed by Tarzan can be set by the user. Tarzan can also list all possible reconstructions which could be interesting for cases where not too many reconstructions exist.


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