SPREAD(1)

💖 SPREAD(1) — the SPREAD manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for SPREAD, from the SPREAD Manual — and yes, we're doing the whole thing, every crumb, no skips. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

spread-phy — analyze and visualize phylogeographic reconstructions 🦋

Like, that's the whole vibe. You give it phylogeographic reconstructions, it analyzes them and makes them pretty. Iconic.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

spread-phy

That's it. That's the whole synopsis. No flags, no args, nothing. She just is. 💅

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🧚 DESCRIPTION 🧚

SPREAD is a user-friendly application to analyze and visualize phylogeographic reconstructions resulting from Bayesian inference of spatio-temporal diffusion. ✨

ngl that's a lot of big words but the energy is: it takes your Bayesian spatio-temporal diffusion output and turns it into something you can actually look at. Main character energy fr fr. 👑

There is a tutorial for SPREAD online at http://www.kuleuven.be/aidslab/phylogeography/tutorial/spread_tutorial.html — go read it, bestie, it's giving "actually helpful documentation". 🫶

Originally this program is named spread. However, there is just such a package inside Debian and thus a 'phy-' for phylogeny was prepended. 😭

the way that a whole naming crisis happened because Debian already had a spread 💀 so now we live in the spread-phy timeline. no cap.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• beast-mcmc(1) — yes go look at that one too, they're linked, it's a whole ecosystem 💜

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📚 REFERENCES 📚

Bielejec F., Rambaut A., Suchard M.A & Lemey P. SPREAD: Spatial Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Evolutionary Dynamics. Bioinformatics, 2011. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr481

cite your sources, besties, it's the law of academia ⭐

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

The authors of the software SPREAD are Filip Bielejec, Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey. 🎀

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution by Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>. It can be used freely by others. 🦋

freely usable by others = go off, take it, remix it, slay. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸 This was SPREAD 1.0.2, dated 01/28/2012 — yes, she's an elder but she still ate. 🍓 Thank you for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💖🫶✨