Table 1 List of software assessed for human mtDNA haplogroup classification. All the tools assessed classify mtDNA sequences according to the PhyloTree nomenclature by using the latest version Build 17. Two of them, MitoTool and Phy-Mer, remain outdated in regards of the PhyloTree built when this study was conducted.

From: A benchmarking of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup classifiers from whole-genome and whole-exome sequence data

Tool

User interface

Release year

Version

Latest release

Database version

Input options

Execution time$ (seconds)

James Lick'sa

Web

2010

0.19a

2013.04.08

Phylotree 17

FASTA

20–27

Haplogrepb

Web / CLI*

2011

2.2.4

2016.07.08

Phylotree 17

VCF | FASTA

0.1 | 1–3

MitoToolc

App

2011

1.1.2

2013.11.02

Phylotree 16

FASTA

2–3

Haplofindd

Web

2013

2013.01.12

Phylotree 17

FASTA

11–15

EMMAe

Web

2013

13

2019.11.28

Phylotree 17

FASTA

10–38

Phy-Merf

Web / CLI*

2015

1.0.0

2016.01.14

Phylotree 16

BAM | FASTA

8–298 | 51 -54

MitoSuiteg

App

2017

1.0.9

2017.06.06

Phylotree 17

BAM

10–340

MixEmth

CLI

2017

0.1

2017.05.09

Phylotree 17

BAM

79–5034

Haplochecki

Web / CLI*

2019

1.1.0

2019.11.17

Phylotree 17

BAM | VCF

3–14 | 1 -2

Haplotrackerj

Web

2020

2020.04.23

Phylotree 17

FASTA

30–32

HaploGrouperk

CLI

2020

2020.08.17

Phylotree 17

VCF

0.1

  1. *CLI Command-line interface. $A range is provided given the differences among samples in the size of the input files.
  2. a: https://dna.jameslick.com/mthap/; b: https://haplogrep.i-med.ac.at16; c: http://mitotool.org24,45; d: https://haplofind.unibo.it46; e: https://empop.online28; f: https://github.com/MEEIBioinformaticsCenter/phy-mer27; g: https://mitosuite.com25; h: https://github.com/svohr/mixemt30; i: https://github.com/genepi/haplocheck31; j: https://haplotracker.cau.ac.kr26; k: https://gitlab.com/bio_anth_decode/haploGrouper47.