>In Article <Pine.A32.3.91.960919094515.27528A-100000 at gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU>,
>qfang at GSAIX2.CC.GASOU.EDU ("Q. Quentin Fang") wrote:
>>How about Puzzle 2.5, a maximum likelihood program for both nucleotides and
>>a.a.? Has anyboy tried the program?
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>> Q. Quentin Fang, Ph.D.
>>>Hello Quentin.
>>I use the program and really like it, easy to use, works nicely w/ CLUSTALW,
>etc. The only caveate is that it runs a little slow, takes about 8 hours
>for 70 100 AA length species, using a unix box. I dont think most people
>use that many species. If you have, say, one of the really beefy RISC-based
>Power Macs (eg 200 mhz 603e or 604e) this probably only takes about an hour.
>Ah, to have alot of money.
>>Ralph
Ralph & Quentin:
On a 132 mhz Power PC, Puzzle 2.5 took 1.5 hours for 15 taxa and
641 amino acid sites; fast for a reasonably sized data set.
Byron
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University of Nebraska
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bjadams at crcvms.unl.edu reconstruction."
-Wallace Stegner
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"Evolution is a change from a nohowish, untalkaboutable all-alikeness, to a
somehowish and ingeneral-talkaboutable, not-all-alikeness, by continuous
somethingelsifications and stick-togetherations."
-a mathmatician named Kirkman
(from Tait, P. G. 1880. "Prof. Tait on the Formula of Evolution." Nature,
(23)pp.80-82. [from Dennet, D. C. 1995, p393. Darwin's Dangerous Idea:
Evolution and Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster, New York, NY.
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