---
name: "pxboot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "phyx"
version: "1.3.2+ds-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pxboot"
---

# pxboot(1)

sequence alignment bootstrap or jackknife resampling

## NAME

pxboot - sequence alignment bootstrap or jackknife resampling

## SYNOPSIS

**pxboot** \[*OPTIONS*\]...

## DESCRIPTION

Sequence alignment bootstrap or jackknife resampling. This will take fasta, fastq, phylip, and nexus formats from a file or STDIN. Results are written in fasta format.

## OPTIONS

- **-s**, **--seqf**=*FILE*

  input sequence file, STDIN otherwise

- **-p**, **--partf**=*FILE*

  file listing empirical partitions: NAME = START-STOP\[\\INTERVAL\]

- **-f**, **--frac**=*DOUBLE*

  jackknife percentage, default bootstrap (i.e. **-f** 1.0)

- **-x**, **--seed**=*INT*

  random number seed, clock otherwise

- **-o**, **--outf**=*FILE*

  output sequence file, STOUT otherwise

- **-h**, **--help**

  display this help and exit

- **-V**, **--version**

  display version and exit

- **-C**, **--citation**

  display phyx citation and exit

## CITATION

Brown, Joseph W., Joseph F. Walker, and Stephen A. Smith. 2017. Phyx: phylogenetic tools for unix. Bioinformatics 33(12): 1886-1888. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx063.

## AUTHOR

Written by Joseph W. Brown

## REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to: \<https://github.com/FePhyFoFum/phyx/issues\> phyx home page: \<https://github.com/FePhyFoFum/phyx\>

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013-2024 FePhyFoFum License GPLv3