TreeBuilderFastTree2¶

class TreeBuilderFastTree2(bin_fp='fasttree', cache_dir=None)[source]¶

Phylogenetic de-novo tree builder

FastTree infers approximately-maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees from alignments of nucleotide or protein sequences. Price et al. [PDA10]

Parameters

bin_fp (Optional[str]) – Path to ‘fasttree’ executable or None for default.
cache_dir (Optional[str]) – Cache directory to use or None for seamless caching.

Attributes

`last_error`	Latest Error
`last_out`	Latest Output

Methods

build(alignment, **kwargs)

Constructs a de-novo phylogenetic tree from MSA(param alignment).