MEGA2

molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software

Kumar, Sudhir
Tamura, Koichiro
Jakobsen, Ingrid B.
Nei, Masatoshi

¹Department of Biology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1501, USA
²Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-ohsawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
³Department of Biology and the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

^*To whom correspondence should be addressed.

Received on February 27, 2001; revised on March 24 and August 1, 2001; accepted on August 4, 2001

Bioinformatics 17(12):p 1244-1245, December 2001.

Summary

We have developed a new software package, Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 2 (MEGA2), for exploring and analyzing aligned DNA or protein sequences from an evolutionary perspective. MEGA2 vastly extends the capabilities of MEGA version 1 by: (1) facilitating analyses of large datasets; (2) enabling creation and analyses of groups of sequences; (3) enabling specification of domains and genes; (4) expanding the repertoire of statistical methods for molecular evolutionary studies; and (5) adding new modules for visual representation of input data and output results on the Microsoft Windows platform.

Availability

http://www.megasoftware.net.

Contact

[email protected]