Pplacer places query sequences on a fixed reference phylogenetic tree to maximize phylogenetic likelihood or posterior probability according to a reference alignment. Pplacer is designed to be fast, to give useful information about uncertainty, and to offer advanced visualization and downstream analysis.
See which versions of pplacer are available:
$ module avail pplacer
Load one version into your environment and run it:
$ module load pplacer/1.1.alpha19 $ pplacer $ guppy $ rppr
Notes from the sysadmin during installation:
$ cd /tmp $ wget https://github.com/matsen/pplacer/releases/download/v1.1.alpha19/pplacer-linux-v1.1.alpha19.zip $ unzip pplacer-linux-v1.1.alpha19.zip $ sudo mkdir -p /export/apps/pplacer $ sudo cp -r pplacer-Linux-v1.1.alpha19 /export/apps/pplacer/1.1.alpha19