LVB

LVB is a freely available, open source software that integrates simulated annealing algorithms to reconstruct maximum parsimony phylogenies.

LVB is developed by staff at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, the School of Biology at the University of St Andrews, and the Computational Biology Group at the Scientific Computing Department of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Recent work also involved the Bioinformatics Unit at the University of St Andrews.

LVB is available from: https://github.com/phylolvb/lvb

Funding:

LVB has been supported by the following:

• EPSRC: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: PhD studentship to Joseph Guscott under the supervision of Daniel Barker and Thomas Meagher
• STFC: Science and Technology Facilities Council: Grant ST/M000435/1 to Daniel Barker, Thomas Meagher and Martyn Winn; Hartree Centre 3rd Blue Joule Access Programme
• BBSRC: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
• Genetics Society

If you use LVB, please cite the following paper:

Barker, D., 2004. LVB: parsimony and simulated annealing in the search for phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 20(2), pp.274-275. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btg402