BeeTLe

Analyzes a large number of simulated and biological datasets. BeeTLe is a simple heuristic that runs a collection of methods, including POY, a method which seeks a tree/alignment pair minimizing the total treelength. It produces a set of trees on a given input set of unaligned sequences, uses POY to compute the treelength of each tree, and then returns the tree that had the shortest treelength. It is guaranteed to find trees at least as short as those found using POY, and thus enables to evaluate the impact of using treelength to find trees.