CladeAge – Divergence Prior Distributions based on a probabilistic model of Fossil Preservation

CladeAge

:: DESCRIPTION

CladeAge is a program that can be used for specifying fossil calibrations on phylogenies when an estimate of a fossil sampling rate is available.

::DEVELOPER

EVOINFORMATICS GROUP

:: SCREENSHOTS

CladeAge

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • MacOsX

:: DOWNLOAD

 CladeAge

:: MORE INFORMATION

PyRate 2.0 – Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Fossil Data

PyRate 2.0

:: DESCRIPTION

PyRate is a Python program to estimate speciation, extinction, and preservation rates from fossil occurrence data using a Bayesian framework.

::DEVELOPER

The Computational Phylogenetics group

:: SCREENSHOTS

N/A

:: REQUIREMENTS

  • Linux/ Windows/ MacOsX
  • Python

:: DOWNLOAD

 PyRate

:: MORE INFORMATION

Citation

Silvestro, D., J. Schnitzler, L. H. Liow, A. Antonelli, and N. Salamin. 2014.
Bayesian estimation of speciation and extinction from incomplete fossil occurrence data.
Systematic Biology doi:10.1093/sysbio/syu006.