References and Credits:

• Kolekar P., Kale M., Kulkarni-Kale U., Alignment-free distance measure based on return time distribution for sequence analysis: Applications to clustering, molecular phylogeny and subtyping, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, (2012) 65(2): 510-522. [PMID: 22820020] Download: Authors' preprint and Supplementary file
  
  
• Kolekar, P., Hake, N., Kale, M., Kulkarni-Kale, U., WNV Typer: A server for genotyping of West Nile viruses using an alignment-free method based on a return time distribution, Journal of Virological Methods, (2013) 198: 41-55. [PMID: 24388930]
  
  
• Kolekar, Pandurang, Kale, Mohan, and Kulkarni-Kale, Urmila. Subtyping of Dengue Viruses using Return Time Distribution based Appproach. Available from Nature Precedings (2011)
  
  
• Kolekar P, Kale M, Kulkarni Kale U: Genotyping of Mumps viruses based on SH gene: Development of a server using alignment-free and alignment-based methods. Immunome Research, 2011, 7(3):1-7 [Publisher's full text]
  
  
• Kolekar P, Kale M, Kulkarni-Kale U: `Inter-Arrival Time' Inspired Algorithm and its Application in Clustering and Molecular Phylogeny. American Institute of Physics Conf Proc. 2010, 1298(1):307-312. [Abstract]
  
  

Credits:

• The server uses the Neighbor program of PHYLIP package to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree (Newick file) from the distance matrix generated by RTD based program. The copyright and other details of PHYLIP package are available at http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html
  
  Citation information:
  Felsenstein, J. 2005. PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) version 3.6. Distributed by the author. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.
  Felsenstein, J. 1989. PHYLIP - Phylogeny Inference Package (Version 3.2). Cladistics 5: 164-166.
  
  
• The server uses the FigTree.jar program to generate the PDF from Newick tree file generated by Neighbor program. The copyright and other details of FigTree are available at http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/
  
  
• The RTD webserver is is implemented using Apache HTTP server, HTML5, JavaScript5, CSS3, Bootstrap3, PHP and CGI. It is developed by Pandurang Kolekar.