Rainbow: a toolbox for phylogenetic supertree construction and analysis

UNLABELLED Rainbow is a program that provides a graphic user interface to construct supertrees using different methods. It also provides tools to analyze the quality of the supertrees produced. Rainbow is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. AVAILABILITY Rainbow is a free open-source software. Its binary files, source code, and manual can be downloaded from the Rainbow web page: http://genome.cs.iastate.edu/Rainbow/

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