@article{PAR00008930, title = {{A}pe 3.0 : new tools for distance-based phylogenetics and evolutionary analysis in {R}}, author = {{P}opescu, {A}. {A}. and {H}uber, {K}. {T}. and {P}aradis, {E}mmanuel}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{R}eflecting its continuously increasing versatility and functionality, the popularity of the ape (analysis of phylogenetics and evolution) software package has grown steadily over the years. {A}mong its features, it has a strong distance-based component allowing the user to compute distances from aligned {DNA} sequences based on most methods from the literature and also build phylogenetic trees from them. {H}owever, even data generated with modern genomic approaches can fail to give rise to sufficiently reliable distance estimates. {O}ne way to overcome this problem is to exclude such estimates from data analysis giving rise to an incomplete distance data set (as opposed to a complete one). {S}o far their analysis has been out of reach for ape. {T}o remedy this, we have incorporated into ape several methods from the literature for phylogenetic inference from incomplete distance matrices. {I}n addition, we have also extended ape's repertoire for phylogenetic inference from complete distances, added a new object class to efficiently encode sets of splits of taxa, and extended the functionality of some of its existing functions.}, keywords = {}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{B}ioinformatics}, volume = {28}, numero = {11}, pages = {1536--1537}, ISSN = {1367-4803}, year = {2012}, DOI = {10.1093/bioinformatics/bts184}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/{PAR}00008930}, }