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What do the Programs do?

AxParafit and AxPcoords are highly optimized versions of Pierre Legendre's Parafit and DistPCoA programs for statistical analysis of host-parasite coevolution. AxParafit has also been parallelized with MPI (Message Passing Interface) for compute clusters. We have used parallel AxParafit to carry out the largest co-evolutionary analysis to date for the paper describing the software.



Citing  AxParafit & AxPcoords:



When publishing results using AxParafit or AxPcoords please cite the following papers:

Alexandros Stamatakis, Alexander Auch, Jan Meier-Kolthoff, Markus 
Göker:
“AxPcoords & Parallel AxParafit: Statistical Co-Phylogenetic Analyses on Thousands of Taxa”,
BMC Bioinformatics 8:405, 2007.


and:

Pierre Legendre, Yves Desdevises, Eric Bazin:
"A Statistical Test for Host-Parasite Coevolution",
 Systematic Biology 51(2):217-234, 2002.



If you also used the CopyCat tool in your analyses, please cite:

Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff, Alexander F. Auch, Daniel H. Huson and Markus Göker:
"CopyCat: cophylogenetic analysis tool",
Bioinformatics 23(7):898-900, 2007.



Manual, Source Code (under GPL), and Binaries

AxParafit Source code

AxPcoords source code

AxParafit & AxPcoords Manual

Test-Data
Link to CopyCat version with AxParafit/AxPcoords

Some pre-compiled Binaries:
  1. AxParafit_linux_32 (binary  for 32-bit Linux architectures, using hand optimized matrix-mult)
  2. AxParafit_linux_32_old (if the one above yields an error "version `GLIBC_2.4' not found" try this one)
  3. AxParafit_linux_32_ATLASSSE2_static (statically linked binary for 32-bit Linux machines with SSE2 instruction set, using matrix-mult from ATLAS package)
  4. AxParafit_linux_AMD64_ATLASSSE2_static (statically linked binary for 64-bit Linux machines with SSE2 instruction set, using matrix-mult from ATLAS package)      
  5. AxParafit_mac (binary for MACs)
  6. AxParafit_mac_ATLAS (binary for MACs, using matrix-mult from ATLAS package)
  7. AxParafit_win.exe (binary for Windows)
  8. AxPcoords_linux_32_GSL (statically linked binary for 32-bit Linux architectures using GSL eigenvector/eigenvalue functions)
  9. AxPcoords_linux_32_GSL_old (if the one above yields an error "version `GLIBC_2.4' not found" try this one)
  10. AxPcoords_linux_AMD64_GSL  (statically linked binary for 64-bit AMD Linux architectures using GSL eigenvector/eigenvalue functions)
  11. AxPcoords_mac_gsl (MAC version using GSL eigenvector/eigenvalue functions)
  12. AxPcoords_win_gsl_static.exe  (statically linked Windows version using GSL eigenvector/eigenvalue functions) 

AMD ACML Library

Intel MKL Library

GNU Scientific Library

ATLAS Library




Results And Data from the Paper: Empirical Study of Smut Fungi and their Hosts


Entire Archive

AxParafit Output U 99

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AxParafit Output U 9999

AxParafit Output W 99

AxParafit Output W 999

AxParafit Output W 9999

Host Taxonomy

Queries and Sources

Unique Associations

AxParafit Input Data U

AxParafit Input Data W