phyloMeta: a program for phylogenetic comparative analyses with meta-analysis

Bioinformatics. 2011 Sep 15;27(18):2603-4. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr438. Epub 2011 Jul 22.

Abstract

Summary: phyloMeta is an easy to use console program for integrating phylogenetic information into meta-analysis. It is designed to help ecologists, evolutionary biologists and conservation biologists analyze effect size data extracted from published studies in a comparative phylogenetic context. This software estimates phylogenetic versions of all the traditional meta-analytical statistics used for: pooling effect sizes with weighted regressions; evaluating the homogeneity of these effect sizes; performing moderator tests akin to ANOVA style analyses; and analyzing data with fixed- and random-effects models. phyloMeta is developed in C/C++ and can be used via command line in MS Windows environments.

Availability: phyloMeta can be obtained freely as an executable on the web at http://lajeunesse.myweb.usf.edu/publications

Contact: lajeunesse@usf.edu.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Biological Evolution
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Phylogeny*
  • Research Design
  • Software