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Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

Bioinformatics · 2010 · Vol. 26(11) · pp. 1463–1464
Steven W. KembelPeter D. CowanMatthew R. HelmusWilliam K. CornwellHélène MorlonDavid D. AckerlySimon P. BlombergCampbell O. Webb

Abstract

Picante is a package for the R statistical language and environment written in R and C, released under a GPL v2 open-source license, and freely available on the web (http://picante.r-forge.r-project.org) and from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org).

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesEvolution and Paleontology StudiesLand Use and Ecosystem ServicesR packagePhylogenetic treeTraitPhylogenetic diversitySet (abstract data type)LicenseOpen sourceDiversity (politics)Software packageComputer science

MeSH terms

EcologyPhenotypePhylogenySoftwareBiodiversity

Funding

  • National Science Foundation
  • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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