biomc2

biomc2 is a hierarchical Bayesian procedure to detect recombination in DNA sequence alignments based on the incongruence between topologies caused by recombinational events.

Please check out the accompanying blog for the software, where informal discussions and announcements take place. You can also use the blog to send requests, questions and complains.

The software is released under the GPL license, and is now being hosted at github: https://github.com/leomrtns/recomb-biomc2. Installation and further instructions can be found here.

Reference

The software is described in the following publications

Leonardo de Oliveira Martins, Élcio Leal and Hirohisa Kishino (2008) Phylogenetic Detection of Recombination with a Bayesian Prior on the Distance between Trees. PLoS ONE 3(7): e2651. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002651

Leonardo de Oliveira Martins and Hirohisa Kishino (2010) Distribution of distances between topologies and its effect on detection of phylogenetic recombination. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 62(1): 145--159. doi:10.1007/s10463-009-0259-8 [link to personal copy]

Leonardo de Oliveira Martins (2008) Bayesian Inference of Viral Recombination: Topology distance between DNA segments and its distribution. Ph.D. Thesis submitted to the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology of the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences of the The University of Tokyo.