Section: New Software and Platforms
DeCoSTAR
Keywords: Bioinformatics - Evolution
Functional Description: DeCoSTAR reconstructs ancestral genomes and improves the assembly of extant genomes. It takes as input a set of gene trees, a species tree and adjacency relations between extant genes. It outputs ancestral genes, adjacencies between extant and ancestral genes, and a statistical support associated to each inferred adjacency.
News Of The Year: Publication of the software with several test sets in Genome Biology and Evolution