VeryFastTree

Description

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VeryFastTree is a highly-tuned implementation of the FastTree-2 tool that takes advantage of parallelization and vectorization strategies to speed up the inference of phylogenies for huge alignments. It is important to highlight that VeryFastTree keeps unchanged the phases, methods and heuristics used by FastTree-2 to estimate the phylogenetic tree. In this way, it produces trees with the same topological accuracy than FastTree-2. In addition, unlike the parallel version of FastTree-2, VeryFastTree is deterministic.

Environment Modules

Run module spider veryfasttree to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

System Variables

• HPC_VERYFASTTREE_DIR - installation directory
• HPC_VERYFASTTREE_BIN - executable directory

Citation

If you publish research that uses veryfasttree you have to cite it as follows:

César Piñeiro, José M. Abuín and Juan C. Pichel. Bioinformatics, vol. 36, no. 17, pages 4658-4659, 2020.