PartitionFinder and PartitionFinderProtein are Python programs for simultaneously choosing partitioning schemes and models of molecular evolution for sequence data. You can use them before running a phylogenetic analysis, in order to decide how to divide up your sequence data into separate blocks before analysis, and to simultaneously perform model selection on each of those blocks.
Mac and Windows are supported. All of the code was written with Linux in mind too, so if you are interested in porting it to Linux, please get in touch (or just try it out!).
is in the /docs folder.
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Make sure you have Python 2.7 installed first, if not, go to www.python.org/getit/
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For PartitionFinderProtein just substitute 'PartitionFinderProtein' for 'PartitionFinder' below
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Open Terminal (on a Mac) or Command Prompt (on Windows) and cd to the directory with PartitionFinder in it
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Run PartitionFinder by typing at the command prompt:
python PartitionFinder.py example
This will run the included example analysis for PartitionFinder. More generally, the command line for PartitionFinder looks like this:
python <PartitionFinder.py> <foldername>
where <PartitionFinder.py> is the full file-path to the PartitionFinder.py file and is the full filepath to a folder with a phylip alignemnt and associated .cfg file.
For more details, read the manual.