Likewind

A maximum likelihood-based method for detecting conflicting phylogenetic signal in nucleotide sequence alignments

References:

Archibald, J.M. and A.J. Roger (2002) Gene duplication and gene conversion shape the evolution of archaeal chaperonins. J. Mol. Biol. 316:1041-1050.

Archibald, J.M. and A.J. Roger (2002) Gene conversion and the evolution of euryarchaeal chaperonins: a maximum likelihood-based method for detecting conflicting phylogenetic signal. J. Mol. Evol. 55:232-245.

Get the Users Manual here: HTML format or PDF format

To get the latest version of the program you can download the 'tar' file here: Likewind1.0.1.tar .

Once you have down loaded this simply extract the tar file to access the 3 programs:

likewind.pl, getlikes.pl and simblock.pl

Hints on extracting the file in a unix environment. At the prompt type:

$ tar xvomf likewind_1.0.tar

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the creators John M. Archibald or Andrew J. Roger