-npNP NP is the number of processors to use for MPI. If not specified some hopefully sensible guess is
made. ThisisaspecificoptionoftheDebianwrapperin/usr/bin.-a use the median for the discrete approximation of the GAMMA model of rate heterogeneity
DEFAULT: OFF
-B specify the number of best ML trees to save and print to file
-c Specify number of distinct rate catgories for ExaML when modelOfEvolution is set to GTRPSR
Individual per-site rates are categorized into numberOfCategories rate categories to accelerate
computations.
DEFAULT: 25
-D ML search convergence criterion. This will break off ML searches if the relative Robinson-Foulds
distance between the trees obtained from two consecutive lazy SPR cycles is smaller or equal to
1%. Usage recommended for very large datasets in terms of taxa. On trees with more than 500 taxa
this will yield execution time improvements of approximately 50% While yielding only slightly
worse trees.
DEFAULT: OFF
-e set model optimization precision in log likelihood units for final optimization of model
parameters
DEFAULT: 0.1
-f select algorithm:
"-f d": new rapid hill-climbing
DEFAULT: ON
"-f e": compute the likelihood of a bunch of trees passed via -t
this option will do a quick and dirty optimization without re-optimizng the model parameters for
each tree
"-f E": compute the likelihood of a bunch of trees passed via -t
this option will do a thorough optimization that re-optimizes the model parameters for each tree
"-f o": old and slower rapid hill-climbing without heuristic cutoff
"-f q": fast quartet calculator
DEFAULT for "-f": new rapid hill climbing
-g Pass a multi-furcating constraint tree to ExaML. The tree needs to contain all taxa of the
alignment! When using this option you also need to specify a random number seed via "-p"
-h Display this help message.
-i Initial rearrangement setting for the subsequent application of topological changes phase
-I Set after how many quartet evaluations a new checkpoint will be printed.
DEFAULT: 1000
-m Model of rate heterogeneity
select "-m PSR" for the per-site rate category model (this used to be called CAT in RAxML) select
"-m GAMMA" for the gamma model of rate heterogeneity with 4 discrete rates
-M Switch on estimation of individual per-partition branch lengths. Only has effect when used in
combination with "-q" Branch lengths for individual partitions will be printed to separate files A
weighted average of the branch lengths is computed by using the respective partition lengths
DEFAULT: OFF
-n Specifies the name of the output file.
-p Specify a random number seed, required in conjunction with the "-g" option for constraint trees
-R read in a binary checkpoint file called ExaML_binaryCheckpoint.RUN_ID_number
-r Pass the number of quartets to randomly sub-sample from the possible number of quartets for the
given taxon set. Only works in combination with -f q !
-s Specify the name of the BINARY alignment data file generated by the parser component
-S turn on memory saving option for gappy multi-gene alignments. For large and gappy datasets specify
-S to save memory This will produce slightly different likelihood values, may be a bit slower but
can reduce memory consumption from 70GB to 19GB on very large and gappy datasets
-t Specify a user starting tree file name in Newick format
-v Display version information
-w FULL (!) path to the directory into which ExaML shall write its output files
DEFAULT: current directory
-Y Pass a quartet grouping file name defining four groups from which to draw quartets The file input
format must contain 4 groups in the following form: (Chicken, Human, Loach), (Cow, Carp), (Mouse,
Rat, Seal), (Whale, Frog); Only works in combination with -f q !
--auto-prot=ml|bic|aic|aicc When using automatic protein model selection you can chose the criterion for
selecting these models.
RAxML will test all available prot subst. models except for LG4M, LG4X and GTR-based models, with
and without empirical base frequencies. You can chose between ML score based selection and the
BIC, AIC, and AICc criteria.
DEFAULT: ml