Methods_priorities

  • Independent contrasts:
    Software? PDAP module in mesquite
    CONTRAST in PHYLIP
    APE package in R?
    Phylocom (parts of the program are known to work for at least 10K taxa)
  • Continuous ancestral character state reconstruction (with confidence measures)
    Identify candidate software:
    ANCML
    Mesquite
    APE (R package)
    Phylocom
  • Discrete ancestral character state reconstruction (with confidence measures)
    Identify candidate software:
    Mesquite
    APE (R package)
    BayesTraits
  • Various stretching processes (Blomberg K, various Pagel transforms, etc.)
    Identify candidate software:
    Geiger (R package)
    BayesTraits
    Phylocom
  • Additional methods (discussion needed when nearing that point)