joe@GENETICS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Joe Felsenstein) (09/28/89)
In answer to Vincent Bauchau's inquiry about David Swofford's program BIOSYS, the following is from the main documentation file of my own package PHYLIP where I am discussing other packages including Swofford's excellent parsimony program PAUP: "Swofford also distributes an older package of programs, BIOSYS-1, including some phylogeny estimation programs, for use with gene frequency data, with particular attention to distance methods. BIOSYS-1 is distributed on an IBM PC-formatted floppy disk. Included are precompiled versions for the IBM PC and source code for uploading to IBM, VAX/VMS, Unix, Prime and CDC mainframes and minicomputers. The price is $35.00. BIOSYS-2 is under development, but it is too early to anticipate a completion date." The address is David Swofford, Illinois Natural History Survey, Natural Resources Building, 607 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA. Dave has electronic mail but does not answer it these days as he is in a rush to complete documentation on a new Macintosh version of PAUP. BIOSYS is really alone in allowing handling of gene frequency data. PHYLIP has a genetic distance program and distance matrix methods as well as a maximum likelihood program, CONTML, which assumes a genetic drift model of population divergence. But BIOSYS has a much wider variety of methods available. Dave tells me that although there has been more attention paid to PAUP, there is such a demand for BIOSYS that he distributed more copies of it than of PAUP. Joe Felsenstein, Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 Internet/ARPAnet: joe@genetics.washington.edu BITNET/EARN: FELSENST@UWALOCKE UUCP: ... uw-beaver!uw-entropy!uw-evolution!joe