Overview

What Phylogenetics Studio does

Phylogenetics Studio aligns sequences progressively, scores conservation and builds trees by neighbour-joining or UPGMA with bootstrap support, or by maximum likelihood under JC69, K80, HKY85 or Poisson models with optional gamma rate variation and AIC/BIC model selection.

Trees can be rooted, styled and exported as Newick or images for publication.

Technical specifications

Inputs: FASTA · Newick
Outputs: Alignments · Trees (Newick) · Tree figures · Model-selection tables
Engine: TypeScript kernels in a Web Worker
Platforms: Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari (current versions) · Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS · No installation, no account, no upload
Limits: Maximum-likelihood trees up to 150 taxa (local NNI search); bootstrap runs in parallel on your CPU cores
Licence: Free during the public preview; institutional licences on request

Features

Capabilities

01

Multiple alignment

Progressive alignment with conservation scoring.

02

Distance trees

Neighbour-joining and UPGMA with bootstrap support.

03

Maximum likelihood

Nucleotide and protein models, gamma rates and AIC/BIC selection.

04

Tree figures

Rooting, styling and export.

Use cases

Who uses it, and for what

Placing a new isolate in a phylogeny
Teaching tree-building methods
Quick trees for gene families

Documentation

Quick start

Open Phylogenetics Studio
Use the button on this page or the Workbench menu. Nothing to install; works in current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
Load data or the demo
Drop in your files (FASTA, Newick) or load the labelled synthetic demo to explore safely.
Run and inspect
Results appear as interactive figures and tables; each analysis records its parameters and versions.
Export and cite
Export figures and tables, add them to a report, and copy the auto-written methods paragraph.

Full documentation

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