Table 1.

Comparison of Phylometrics to existing commonly-used tools for generating phylogenetic trees.

	Phylometrics	STAP	ARB	MEGA 4.1
User Interface	Web Browser	Command line	GUI	GUI
Where is it installed?	Local or Remote	Local	Local	Local
Open source	Yes	Yes	No	No
Offers Manual Alignment	No	No	Yes	Yes
Parallel Processing	Yes	Yes	No	No
Batch Jobs	Yes	Yes	No	No
Visualization of Sequence Networks	Yes	No	No	No