Figure 1.

Diagram of the TaxMan workflow showing the steps involved in multigene phylogenetic analysis. The upper dotted box shows the stages that are carried only once, to build the database – sequence acquisition, consensus building and alignment. The lower dotted box shows the stages that are typically carried out multiple times – definition of a subset of genes and taxa, production of an alignment file, subjecting the alignment to phylogenetic analysis and storing the resulting tree.