Phylogenetic tree

Metagenomics Tools

How to construct a phylogenetic tree from a set of sequences?

  1. Create multiple alignment of all sequences (e.g., several variants of a gene)

→ Sequence alignment

  1. Construct phylogenetic trees

→ Tree construction software (RAxML, FastTree-2, IQ-TREE, ...)

  1. View, edit and explore phylogenetic trees

→ Tree viewer (Forester, TreeView, FigTree, ... )