ASTER¶

ASTER is a family of optimization algorithms for species tree inference. The bundle packages version 1.23.

Usage example¶

The following command can be executed in the terminal to load the bundle:

1	`module load aster`

The module makes the following commands available:

astral
astral4
astral-hybrid
astral-pro
astral-pro3
caster-pair
caster-site
caster-site_branchlength
dstar
waster
waster_branchlength
wastral

The aster_shell command can be used to access a shell in the bundle.

Run pet list -t aster for a list of examples.

Performance notes¶

No performance notes available

Recommended resources per session¶

ASTER should be run on a system with at least 8 GB of RAM and 8 threads. The recommendation was inferred from the linked article

Benchmarks¶

No benchmarks available.

Community guides and tutorials¶

No community guides available.

Official site and documentation¶

Licensing information¶

ASTER is licensed under the GNU Affero GPL.

Primary citation¶

Chao Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Siavash Mirarab, ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025, msaf172, doi

External guides and resources¶

If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za