Table 2 Comparison of features for detecting diagnostic characters between DeSignate, BOLD’s Diagnostic Characters workbench utility [12], CAOS [13], and QUIDDICH [14]
From: DeSignate: detecting signature characters in gene sequence alignments for taxon diagnoses
Features | DeSignate | BOLD | CAOS | QUIDDICH |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Web interface | + | + | − | − |
Command-line interface | + | − | + | + |
Open source license | + | − | − | + |
Requires no editing of input files | + | + | − | + |
Free choice of nucleotide sequence alignment | + | + | + | + |
Group selection with a (guide) tree | + | − | + | − |
Free choice of the query and reference groups | + | − | + | + |
Analysis of combined characters | + | − | + | − |
Support for interpretation and validation | + | − | − | − |