RAxML-NG v2.0 beta

[Alexandros Stamatakis]

Dear Users,

We are happy to announce the release of RAxML-NG v2.0 beta

https://github.com/amkozlov/raxml-ng/releases/tag/2.0-beta2

It has numerous new features such as

1. Integrated difficulty prediction
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/12/msac254/6832260
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645182v1

2. An adaptive search algorithm that is based on the difficulty score
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/40/10/msad227/7296053

3. A criterion to stop tree searches early
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.04.602058v1

4. An option to perform model selection

5. The prediction of bootstrap values via machine learning
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/41/10/msae215/7825466

6. A reimplementation of the rapid bootstrap option from standard RAxML
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/57/5/758/1618491

and many more.

Please feel free to test and let us know how it works.

A big thanks to my lab members for the tremendous effort they have
undertaken to integrate their algorithms and ideas into this release.

Alexis

--
Alexandros (Alexis) Stamatakis

ERA Chair, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and
Technology - Hellas
Research Group Leader, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Full Professor, Dept. of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

www.biocomp.gr (Crete lab)
www.exelixis-lab.org (Heidelberg lab)