POY

Phylogenetic Analysis of DNA and other data using dynamic homology

POY is a phylogenetic analysis program that supports multiple kinds of data (e.g. morphology, nucleotides, genes and gene regions, chromosomes, whole genomes, etc). POY is particular in that it can perform true alignment and phylogeny inference (i.e. input sequences need not to be prealigned). Insertions, deletions, and rearrangements, can then be included in the overall tree score (under Maximum Parsimony), or in the model (under Maximum Likelihood). A variety of heuristic algorithms have been developed for this purpose and are implemented in POY.

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The development of POY4 is sponsored in part by CIPRES.

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Current version: 5.0.0 Beta (February 2013)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, W. C. Wheeler. 2010. POY version 4: phylogenetic analysis using dynamic homologies. Cladistics, 26:72-85.

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POY 4.1.2 (August 2009)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, W. C. Wheeler. 2010. POY version 4: phylogenetic analysis using dynamic homologies. Cladistics, 26:72-85.

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Old versions of POY

Version 4.1.1 (23 January 2009)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.1.1. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.1 (15 November 2008)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.1. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0.2911 (7 October 2008)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0.2911. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0.2885 (15 August 2008)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0.2885. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0.2870 (21 May 2008)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0.2870. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 2635 (11 March 2008)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 2635. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 2602 (8 February 2008)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 2602. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 2398 (23 October 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 2398. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 2318 (12 October 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 2318. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 2205 (10 September 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 2205. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 1983 (18 July 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 1983. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 1908 (12 June 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 1908. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 1902 (11 June 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 1902. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 1724 (29 March 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C.Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 1724. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 4.0 Beta build 1665 (17 February 2007)

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Varón, A., L. S. Vinh, I. Bomash, W. C. Wheeler. 2008. POY 4.0 Beta 1665. American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php

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Version 3.0.11

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Version 2.7

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Version 2.0

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Sample Files

Sample data for DOS

Sample data for Linux

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jack2hen

Converts POY output (one or more trees in nested parentheses format) into a matrix (in hennig format) of group inclusion characters representing the concensus tree used for contraint files.

Datasets

Datasets for published studies are available here for download. Descriptions of datasets and formats for each study are provided in the associated readme files.

Arango, C. P., and W. C. Wheeler. 2007. Phylogeny of the sea spiders (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) based on direct optimization of six loci and morphology. Cladistics 23:00-00: 0-00.

Grant, T., D. R. Frost, J. P. Caldwell, R. Gagliardo, C. F. B. Haddad, P. J. R. Kok, B. D. Means, B. P. Noonan, W. Schargel and W. C. Wheeler. 2006. Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Anura: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 299: 1-262.

Frost, D.R., T. Grant, J. Faivovich, R. Bain, A. Haas, C.F.B. Haddad, R.O. de Sá, S.C. Donnellan, C.J. Raxworthy, M. Wilkinson, A. Channing, J.A. Campbell, B.L. Blotto, P. Moler, R.C. Drewes, R.A. Nussbaum, J.D. Lynch, D. Green, and W.C. Wheeler. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1-370.