ExpressBetaDiversity

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Express Beta Diversity (EBD) is a software package for calculating measures of taxon- or phylogenetic-based beta diversity.

Documentation

Downloads

EBD is available as C++ source code under the GNU GPL v3. A precompiled binary is provided for Windows and simple compilation instructions provided for OSX and Linux.

Citing EBD

If you use EBD in your research, please cite:

Parks, D.H. and Beiko, R.G. Measures of phylogenetic differentiation provide robust and complementary insights into microbial communities. (submitted to ISME J, January, 2012).

Contact Information

EBD is in active development and we are interested in discussing all potential applications of this software. We encourage you to send us suggestions for new features. Suggestions, comments, and bug reports can be sent to Donovan Parks (parks [at] cs.dal.ca) or Robert Beiko (beiko [at] cs.dal.ca). If reporting a bug, please provide as much information as possible and a simplified version of the data set which causes the bug. This will allow us to quickly resolve the issue.

Funding