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.

• Version: 1.1.alpha19
• Added: March, 2020
• Link: https://matsen.fhcrc.org/pplacer/

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