ASTRAL-related papers

weighted ASTRAL:

Zhang, C., & Mirarab, S. (2022). Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(12), msac215. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac215.

ASTRAL-Pro:

Zhang, C., Scornavacca, C., Molloy, E. K., & Mirarab, S. (2020). ASTRAL-Pro: Quartet-Based Species-Tree Inference despite Paralogy. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(11), 3292–3307. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa139 

Zhang, C., & Mirarab, S. (2022). ASTRAL-Pro 2: Ultrafast species tree reconstruction from multi-copy gene family trees. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac620 

ASTRAL-MP:

Yin, J., Zhang, C., & Mirarab, S. (2019). ASTRAL-MP: Scaling ASTRAL to very large datasets using randomization and parallelization. Bioinformatics, 35(20). https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz211.

We have used the following datasets

ASTRAL-Multiind:

Rabiee, Maryam, Erfan Sayyari, and Siavash Mirarab. “Multi-Allele Species Reconstruction Using ASTRAL.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130 (2019): 286–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.10.033

INSTRAL:

Rabiee, Maryam, and Siavash Mirarab. “INSTRAL: Discordance-Aware Phylogenetic Placement Using Quartet Scores.” Systematic Biology, July 10, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz045.

Polytomy test:

Sayyari, E., & Mirarab, S. (2018). Testing for Polytomies in Phylogenetic Species Trees Using Quartet Frequencies. Genes, 9(3), 132. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes9030132 

ASTRAL-III:

Zhang, Chao, Maryam Rabiee, Erfan Sayyari, and Siavash Mirarab. “ASTRAL-III: Polynomial Time Species Tree Reconstruction from Partially Resolved Gene Trees.” BMC Bioinformatics 19, no. S6 (2018): 153. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2129-y.

LocalPP:

Sayyari, E., & Mirarab, S. (2016). Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(7), 1654–1668. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw079 

ASTRAL-HGT study::

Davidson, Ruth; Vachaspati, Pranjal; Mirarab, Siavash; Warnow, Tandy (2023): Data from: Phylogenomic species tree estimation in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting and horizontal gene transfer. 

ASTRAL-II:

 Mirarab, S., & Warnow, T. (2015). ASTRAL-II: Coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes. Bioinformatics, 31(12), i44–i52. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv234 

ASTRAL-I: 

Mirarab, Siavash, Rezwana Reaz, Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, Théo Zimmermann, M. S. Swenson, and Tandy Warnow. “ASTRAL: Genome-Scale Coalescent-Based Species Tree Estimation.” Bioinformatics 30, no. 17 (2014): i541–48. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu462.

Datasets

The following datasets are used in the ASTRAL paper shown above. All these archive files include README files that describe their content. We acknowledge the help of Bastien Boussau who performed these simulations for another study and made them available to us for this paper.