Introduction to R
General information
Biodiversity Hotspots (information on biodiversity hotspots by Conservation International)
Online services
NCBI (Genbank/BLAST)
MAFFT (multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences)
Gblocks (selecting conserved blocks for multiple alignments)
PhyML (estimating large phylogenies by maximum likelihood)
RAxML (estimating large phylogenies by maximum likelihood)
GPS Visualizer (convert GPS data for use in Google Earth and other applications)
Software downloads/purchases & Sources of data
R (free software for statistical computing and graphics)
MacClade (phylogenetic analysis and data editing)
jModelTest (phylogenetic model averaging)
TNT (inferring phylogenetic trees using parsimony)
PAUP* (phylogenetic analysis under parsimony *and other methods)
MrBayes (Bayesian inference of phylogeny)
RAxML (a fast program for Maximum Likelihood-based inference; raxmlGUI provides a graphical front-end for RAxML)
GMYC (species delimitation method using general mixed Yule coalescent model)
Multidivtime (Bayesian estimation of divergence times)
BEAST (Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis by Sampling Trees)
R8s (estimating rates of molecular evolution and divergence times)
SymmeTREE (testing for differential rates of diversification using the topological information of phylogenetic trees)
ECERFODM (to estimate the metabolic rate effect on evolutionary rates)
LASER (detecting temporal shifts in diversification rates using maximum likelihood)
Lagrange (likelihood analysis of geographic range evolution)
MESQUITE (a modular system for evolutionary analysis)
EstimateS (estimations of species richness and shared species from samples)
Maxent (species habitat modelling)
WORDCLIM (global climate layers)
Online floras
Online database of the flora of Réunion
Online database of the flora of Madagascar
Online checklist of the plants of southern Africa
Anthos (Flora of the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia)
DNA-Banks
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
SANBI, Kirstenbosch, RSA