RAxML¶

RAxML, Randomized Axelerated Maximum Likelihood, can be used for maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses. The raxml bundle packages version 8.2.12.

UFS HPC Usage Example¶

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

1	`module load raxml`

The raxml commands can be run as shown as below:

raxmlHPC
raxmlHPC-PTHREADS
raxmlHPC-PTHREADS-SSE3
raxmlHPC-AVX2
raxmlHPC-PTHREADS-AVX2
raxmlHPC-SSE3

The raxml_shell commmand can be used to access a shell in the raxml bundle.

1	`raxml_shell`

Performance Notes¶

No performance notes available

Recommended resources per session¶

No recommended resources available

Benchmarks¶

No benchmarks available.

UFS HPC Community Guides and Tutorials¶

No community guides available.

Official site and documentation¶

Licensing Information¶

RAxML is licensed under the GPL3 license.

Primary citation¶

A. Stamatakis: "RAxML Version 8: A tool for Phylogenetic Analysis and Post-Analysis of Large Phylogenies". In Bioinformatics, 2014, open access.

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