TreeFam has retired

The TreeFam website of animal phylogenies has been retired as of Wednesday 30 September, 2026 and is no longer accessible.

TreeFam data

TreeFam databases and data files are available at the TreeFam FTP archive: https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/archive/treefam/

Citing TreeFam

If you find TreeFam data useful, please consider citing the references that describe this work:

• TreeFam: a curated database of phylogenetic trees of animal gene families. Li H, Coghlan A, Ruan J, Coin LJ, Hériché JK, Osmotherly L, Li R, Liu T, Zhang Z, Bolund L, Wong GK, Zheng W, Dehal P, Wang J, Durbin R. Nucleic Acids Research (2006) 34(Database issue):D572-80.
• TreeFam: 2008 Update. Ruan J, Li H, Chen Z, Coghlan A, Coin LJ, Guo Y, Hériché JK, Hu Y, Kristiansen K, Li R, Liu T, Moses A, Qin J, Vang S, Vilella AJ, Ureta-Vidal A, Bolund L, Wang J, Durbin R. Nucleic Acids Research (2008) 36(Database issue):D735-40.
• TreeFam v9: a new website, more species and orthology-on-the-fly. Schreiber F, Patricio M, Muffato M, Pignatelli M, Bateman A. Nucleic Acids Research (2014) 36(Database issue):D922-5.

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