Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution (APE) is a package written in the R language for use in molecular evolution and phylogenetics. APE provides both utility functions for reading and writing data and manipulating phylogenetic trees, as well as several advanced methods for phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis (e VSports手机版. g. comparative and population genetic methods). APE takes advantage of the many R functions for statistics and graphics, and also provides a flexible framework for developing and implementing further statistical methods for the analysis of evolutionary processes. .

Availability: The program is free and available from the official R package archive at http://cran. r-project. org/src/contrib/PACKAGES. html#ape V体育安卓版. APE is licensed under the GNU General Public License. .