Overview
What is ProtTest?
ProtTest : Selection of best-fit models of protein evolution.
In depth
A closer look at ProtTest
PROTTEST (ModelTest's relative) is a program for selecting the model of protein evolution that best fits a given set of sequences (alignment). Models included are empirical substitution matrices (such as WAG, LG, mtREV, Dayhoff, DCMut, JTT, VT, Blosum62, CpREV, RtREV, MtMam, MtArt, HIVb, and HIVw) that indicate relative rates of amino acid replacement, and specific improvements (+I:invariable sites, +G: rate heterogeneity among sites, +F: observed amino acid frequencies) to account for the evolutionary constraints impossed by conservation of protein structure and function. ProtTest uses the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and other statistics (AICc and BIC) to find which of the candidate models best fits the data at hand. Give ProtTest a try to fully assess its capabilities!
Verdict
Should you download ProtTest?
ProtTest runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
GPLv3
license
— the installer is 6.7 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Science and Engineering.
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At a glance
ProtTest specifications
- Publisher
-
The University of Vigo
- Last updated
- Apr 30, 2026
- License
- GPLv3
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 6.7 MB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 885
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