Supporting data for "Efficient phylogenetic tree inference for massive taxonomic datasets: harnessing the power of a server to analyze one million taxa"

Phylogenies play a crucial role in biological research. Unfortunately, the search for the optimal phylogenetic tree incurs significant computational costs, and most of the existing state-of-the-art tools cannot deal with extremely large datasets in a reasonable time. <br>New VeryFastTree (version 4.0) is able to construct a tree on a single server using single precision arithmetic from a massive one million alignment dataset in only 36 hours, which is 3× and 3.2× faster than its previous version and FastTree-2, respectively. <br> Experimental results establish VeryFastTree as the fastest tool in the state-of-the-art for maximum-likelihood phylogeny estimation. It is publicly available at https://github.com/citiususc/veryfasttree. In addition, VeryFastTree is included as a package in Bioconda, MacPorts, and all Debian-based Linux distributions.