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We need to pass the information about partitions to RAxML via a simple plain text file that is passed via the -q parameter. We also need to tell RAxML what kind of data the partition contains see below. If we partition the dataset like this the alpha shape parameter of the Gamma model of rate heterogeneity, the empirical base frequencies, and the evolutionary rates in the GTR matrix will be estimated independently for every partition.

We can of course also use partitioned datasets that contain both, DNA and protein data, e. Note that, the parameter -m is now only used to extract the desired model of rate heterogeneity which will be used for all partitions, i.

The format is analogous for binary partitions, e. We do this in a standard bracket notation written into a plain text file, e. The '. Evidently, the number of opening and closing brackets mus match. In terms of models there are 6-state, 7-state and state models for accommodating secondary structure that are specified via -A. This is presently not possible. However, you can partition the underlying RNA data, e. What RAxML will do internally though is to generate a third partition for secondary structure that does not take into account that distinct secondary structure site pairs may stem from different partitions of the alignment.

This may lead to serious performance degradation. Assume that you have 4 cores but start 5 threads. In this case two threads will be continously competing to get compute time on one core and thereby also slow down the remaining threads that will be waiting for the two adverseary threads to finish their dispute.

If you want to see them running type top and then 1 which will show you the computational load on all cores of your computer. The rationale for this is that a multifurcating tree actually represents a set of bifurcating trees and it is unclear how to properly resolve the multifurcations in general. Also, for computing the likelihood of a tree we need a bifurcating tree, therefore resolving multi-furcations, either at random or in some more clever way is a necessary prerequisite for computing likelihood scores.

I personally have s strong dislike for constraint trees because the bias the analysis a prior using some biological knwoledge that may not necesssarily represent the signal coming from the data one is analyzing. Klein, A. Antonelli, and D. Organisms Diversity and Evolution — Raxml version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis andpost-analysis of large phylogenies. Bioinformatics — Darriba, T. Flouri, B. Morel, and A.

Guy Leonard at Exeter has updated his wrapper environment called easyRax Alexis has developed a couple of perls scripts A perl script for computing bootstrap branch lengths with RAxML. This script can be used to perform the following task with RAxML: Given a best-known ML tree, generate a number of Bootstrap replicates and just re-estimate the branch lengths for that given fixed tree topology on each Bootstrap replicate.

To invoke the script call it as follows: "perl bsBranchLengths. The script assumes that the RAxML executable is located in the directory where you execute it. The bootstrapped trees with branch lengths will be written into a file called "bsTrees".

This script is intended for use with programs that infer divergence time estimates. A perl script for finding the best protein substitution model Here is a little perl-script that will automatically determine the best-scoring AA substitution model on a fixed starting tree.

For unpartitioned datasets execute it like this: perl ProteinModelSelection. For partitioned datasets execute it like this: perl ProteinModelSelection.