The Bio::Phylo libraries for phylogenetic data analysis, version 2.0

Motivation Phylogenetic analysis is a broad and expanding field that requires versatile programming toolkits to manage the various data types, file formats, and needs for scalability, simulation, visualization, and data exploration. Results We present version 2.0 of the Bio::Phylo libraries for phylogenetic data analysis. This new release represents a rewrite of the architecture, allowing for extensions that improve speed and persistence, as well as increased functionality in terms of analysis, data reading and writing, and visualization. Availability The package is released as open source software under the same terms as Perl itself and available from the comprehensive Perl archive network as well as directly from the source code repository. Contact rutger.vos{at}naturalis.nl Supplementary information Supplementary data are available as doi:10.5281/zenodo.1039210