Audience
Biologists, geneticists, and researchers in need of a tool for conducting evolutionary analysis and sequence comparison processes
About MEGA
MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) is a powerful and user-friendly software suite designed for analyzing DNA and protein sequence data from species and populations. It facilitates both automatic and manual sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree inference, and evolutionary hypothesis testing. MEGA supports a variety of statistical methods including maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference, and ordinary least squares, making it an essential tool for comparative sequence analysis and understanding molecular evolution. MEGA offers advanced features such as real-time caption generation to help explain the results and methods used in analysis and the maximum composite likelihood method for estimating evolutionary distances. The software is equipped with robust visual tools like the alignment/trace editor and tree explorer and supports multi-threading for efficient processing. MEGA can be run on multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.