GEIGER: investigating evolutionary radiations
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SUMMARY GEIGER is a new software package, written in the R language, to describe evolutionary radiations. GEIGER can carry out simulations, parameter estimation and statistical hypothesis testing. Additionally, GEIGER's simulation algorithms can be used to analyze the statistical power of comparative approaches. AVAILABILITY This open source software is written entirely in the R language and is freely available through the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) at http://cran.r-project.org/.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bioinformatics
دوره 24 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008