About the data
Tree format
FTOL is available in several flavors:
- The maximum likelihood (ML) tree has branchlengths in units of expected genetic change per site.
- The consensus tree is the extended majority-rule consensus of the bootstrap trees, with units in expected genetic change per site.
- The dated tree has branchlengths in units of time (Ma) and is ultrametric.
- The backbone ML tree only includes species that have complete plastome sequences available.
All trees are rooted on algae (Zygnema) and include outgroup taxa, but Zygnema has been pruned from the dated trees. Node labels are bootstrap support values (%) measured with ultra-fast bootstrap (Hoang et al. 2018).
All trees are in Newick format.
Other data files
The tree files are provided as part of a data archive (zip or tar.gz format).
Other files in the archive include DNA sequence alignments, GenBank accession numbers, and fossil calibration points.
All files are described in the README.txt file contained within the archive.
ftolr R package
For reading the data directly into R with more options (rooting, inclusion of outgroup, selection of only part of the alignment, etc.), use the ftolr R package.
Current: v1.7.0
Built with data from GenBank release 261 (cutoff date 2024-06-15). Includes 635 complete plastome sequences and 5,850 tips total (outgroups excluded unless otherwise mentioned).
Past versions
v1.6.0
Built with data from GenBank release 259 (cutoff date 2023-12-17). Includes 602 complete plastome sequences and 5,785 tips total.
v1.5.1
Built with data from GenBank release 258 (cutoff date 2023-10-15). Includes 591 complete plastome sequences and 5,785 tips total.
v1.5.0
Built with data from GenBank release 256 (cutoff date 2023-06-15). Includes 570 complete plastome sequences and 5,750 tips total.
v1.4.0
Built with data from GenBank release 253 (cutoff date 2022-12-15). Includes 509 complete plastome sequences and 5,685 tips total.
v1.3.0
Built with data from GenBank release 252 (cutoff date 2022-10-15). Includes 485 complete plastome sequences and 5,592 tips total.
v1.2.1
Tree exactly same as v1.2.0. Adds taxonomic name resolution results to data zip file.
v1.2.0
Built with data from GenBank release 251 (cutoff date 2022-08-15). Includes 479 complete plastome sequences and 5,589 tips total.
v1.1.0
Built with data from GenBank release 249 (cutoff date 2022-04-15). Includes 423 complete plastome sequences and 5,582 tips total.
v1.0.0
Cutoff date 2021-12-31. Does not include algae and was rooted on bryophytes.
v0.0.1
Hosted on FigShare and lacks some of the tree formats above due to changes in methodology.