Introduction

The pplacer suite consists of three separate binaries: pplacer, guppy, and rppr. The pplacer binary actually does phylogenetic placement and produces place files, guppy does all of the downstream analysis of placements, and rppr does useful things having to do with reference packages.

Usage

module load bioinformatics/pplacer/1.1

Installation

Download the precompiled binaries and extract it in /sw/bioinformatics/pplacer/1.1

Reference

1. http://matsen.github.com/pplacer/
2. http://matsen.fhcrc.org/pplacer/