LVB overview - lvb manual - release history - daniel barker

LVB Release History

A brief history of releases of LVB phylogeny software is given below.

  • July 2010. LVB 2.3. Improved tree-finding due to adding a hill-climbing search at the end of each simulated annealing search. Also, LVB itself now decides how long to run for: it does one 'fast' search, followed by two or more 'slow' searches, stopping when two consecutive slow searches fail to find new results.
  • February 2006. LVB 2.2.
  • November 2005. LVB 2.2 Beta. Increased speed due to more efficient calculation of tree length.
  • August 2003. LVB 2.1. Added bootstrapping. Also, minor algorithmic change, on interpretation of "energy" in the face of many ambiguous sites.
  • July 2003. LVB 2.0A. Minor changes. Also compiles for Windows.
  • June 2003. LVB 2.0. Major algorithmic change: now uses nearest neighbour interchange and subtree-pruning regrafting to update the tree.
  • February 2003. LVB 2.0 Beta 2. Minor bug fixes.
  • February 2003. LVB 2.0 Beta 1.
  • February 2003. LVB 2.0 Alpha 1 (distributed by email only). Improved interface, uses PHYLIP matrix format, allows ambiguous bases, calculates tree length more quickly.
  • August 1997. LVB 1.0A. Minor bug fixes. Also compiles for Windows.
  • 1997. LVB 1.0. First release.