Phylogemetric: A Python library for calculating phylogenetic network metrics

Abstract

Phylogemetric is a Python library for calculating the δ-score (Holland et al. 2002) and Q-Residual (Gray, Bryant, and Greenhill 2010) for phylogenetic data. These methods are used in studies of linguistic and cultural evolution to quantify reticulation in data. This Python library provides a command-line script interface for use on Nexus-formatted data (D. R. Maddison, Swofford, and Maddison 1997), and an importable Python library for use on any binary matrix.

Authors

Simon J. Greenhill

Citation

Greenhill SJ. 2016. Phylogemetric: A Python library for calculating phylogenetic network metrics. Journal of Open Source Software, 1(2), 28.

Published 3 March 2016

@article{Greenhill2016,
  title = {Phylogemetric: A Python library for calculating phylogenetic network metrics},
  author = {Greenhill, Simon J.},
  journal = {The Journal of Open Source Software},
  volume = {1},
  number = {2},
  pages = {28},
  publisher = {The Open Journal},
  year = {2016},
  doi = {10.21105/joss.00028},
  url = {https://simon.net.nz/articles/phylogemetric/},
}

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