What is CoMET?
CoMET stands for Continuous-character Model Evaluation and Testing and is a module for the Mesquite Project. Give it a tree topology as a starting point and some phenotypic data, CoMET tells you the likelihoods of the data evolving through nine different evolutionary models. For additional information, please see the documentation.
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Release History
23 September 2007
- Mesquite 2.0 has been released. A new version of CoMET has been released to maintain compatibility with the new Mesquite.
19 August 2006
- CoMET has reverted back to using Java 1.4. Consequently, it now works under Mac OS X 10.3 and above. Many Mesquite/CoMET users still depend on OS X 10.3
- The punctuated-maximal model has returned by popular demand. To use it, start with the tree window, then from the menu, select Analysis -> Tree Legend -> Tree value using character matrix (or just "Tree value using character", that works too). Then check the box that says "Show Secondary Choices" to see the option for "CoMET on Matrix (or Character): Punctuated Maximal Only". This module does not calculate the AIC, but it does print for you (in the logs) the maximal branch lengths with each of the models.
- Canceling the computation of "Punctuated Avg" now works. When prompted for the asymmetry ratio, just click "Cancel".
24 June 2006
- No more writing temporary files to disk when computing PuncAvg models
- PuncAvg models can now deal with branch lengths that are undefined or zero
29 January 2006
- Fixed bug related to adjusting the AIC's of PuncAvg models. The adjusting multiplier, dervied from the user-specified asymmetry threshold, is now properly multiplied to the ML when calculating the AIC. Thanks to Karin Isler for reporting this bug.
- Fixed crashes at startup of calculations with single character and simulator. Thanks to Karin Isler and Steve Kembel for reporting these bugs.
19 January 2006
- Updated license information and AppNote manuscript.
19 March 2005
- CoMET slimmed down.
- Feature added for custom punctuation definition.
- Simulation output filename is now user-specified.
- Updated User's Guide and AppNote
7 February 2005
- CoMET for single character is included.
- CoMET Simulator is included.
- Website now has updated User's Guide and short paper.
7 January 2005
- CoMET has been broken into proper Mesquite modules.
- Results are updated as tree and characters change.
- Results are written to the Mesquite log.
- User's Guide is updated.
16 December 2004
- Average models performance has been greatly improved! A 30-taxa tree now takes only seconds to compute and a few kilobytes of disk space thanks to reduced redundancy.
17 November 2004
- CoMET now prints shorter text output for results to better fit text in the output window.
- Some bad leftover code involving the Free models have been removed.
- Average models performance has been improved, but is still slow even for trees with 30+ taxa. The user is prompted for the option to skip these calculations.
- In order to accommodate trees larger than 255 nodes, new tricks will be needed for the Punctuate/Average mdoels. Current ideas include using taxa pairing matrices instead of just pairing sequences to reduce repeats. If the number of taxa is great enough, then these matrices may also need to be paged to disk.
