NEPAL
Phylogenetic Networks Parsimony and Likelihood Toolkit


Thank you for your interest in NEPAL. This software package is developed and maintained by the BioInformatics Group at the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. PhyloNet is aimed mainly at providing a suite of tools for reconstructing and analyzing reticulate (non-treelike) evolutionary relationships using the maximum parsimony (MP) and maximum likelihood (ML) criteria.

This work is supported in part by a National Science Foundation grant (CCF-0622037) and a Department of Energy grant (DE-FG02-06ER25734).

NEPAL is developed entirely in C++. To obtain a copy of the tool, download the most recent version from the link below; currently, we provide only a linux executable. Usage instructions can be found in the User Documentation associated with the release downloaded.

NEPAL Version 1.0

Check out the PhyloNet tool for tree comparison-based tools for phylogenetic network reconstruction.