MinVar-Rooting was published in the PLOS ONE journal (it was also awarded one of the best paper awards at GLBIO2017)

Mai, Uyen, Erfan Sayyari, and Siavash Mirarab. “Minimum Variance Rooting of Phylogenetic Trees and Implications for Species Tree Reconstruction.” Edited by Gabriel Moreno-Hagelsieb. PLOS ONE 12, no. 8 (2017): e0182238. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0182238.

Besides, MinVar-Rootig was named MCCV in an independent and simultaneous work by Tria et al.

Domingues Kümmel Tria, Fernando & Landan, Giddy & Dagan, Tal. (2017). Phylogenetic rooting using minimal ancestor deviation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1. 0193. 10.1038/s41559-017-0193.

Code repositories

Github page for the python code for MV and MP.

Github page for scripts and pipelines.

Dryad page for Datasets

Contact

Uyen Mai um6916@princeton.edu

Siavash Mirarab smirarabbaygi@eng.ucsd.edu