Software development

We develop various software that facilitate frequent tasks in phylogenetics and other areas of biology.

BarKeeper
BarKeeper
© Sarah Wiechers

BarKeeper

GitHub repository: https://github.com/DNA-BarKeeper/barkeeper
Current version:  1.0.0
Developers / contributers:  Sarah Wiechers, Kai Müller

BarKeeper is a flexible tool for barcoding initiatives to foster shared work on large datasets of raw sequence- and associated metadata to go from a target reference taxa list to finished barcodes.
BarKeeper is free, open-source, and available as a set of Docker containers for easy setup on a server.

TreeGraph 2
Treegraph 2list
© Ben Stöver

TreeGraph 2

GitHub repository: https://github.com/bioinfweb/TreeGraph2
Current version:  2.15.0 beta (Apr 26, 2019 8:35:00 PM)
Developers / contributers:  Ben Stöver, Sarah Wiechers, Kai Müller
Download: Treegraph 2.15.0-887 Beta

TreeGraph 2 is a graphical editor for phylogenetic trees that features a variety of formatting options for the elements of a tree. Moreover, it supports several (visible or invisible) annotations (e.g. support values) for every branch or node. These annotations can be imported from Nexus tree files or text files containing data in a table (e.g. exported from a spreadsheet program).

JPhyloIO
Jphyloiolist
© Ben Stöver

JPhyloIO

GitHub repository: https://github.com/bioinfweb/JPhyloIO
Current version:  1.0.0 (Jun 12, 2019 3:30:00 PM)
Developers / contributers:  Ben Stöver, Sarah Wiechers, Kai Müller
Download: JPhyloIO-complete-1.0.0

A Java library for event-based reading and writing of different phylogenetic file formats through a common interface.

SeqState
Seqstatelist
© Ben Stöver

SeqState

Current version:  1.4.1 (Oct 2, 2008 11:00:00 PM)
Developer:  Kai Müller
Download: Seqstate

Primer design, sequence statistics, and indel coding according to various schemes