Data, software & code

This page brings together packages & data that were developed primarily in the course of research. Teaching-focused tools and course resources are on the Teaching page.

Many items were developed collaboratively; see individual links for details.



R packages

Package Purpose Links Year
statsapps Interactive Shiny apps for building statistical intuition. CRAN · GitHub 2026
AvInertia Calculate center of gravity and moment of inertia tensor of a flying bird. CRAN · GitHub · Paper 2021
gaussplotR Fit, predict, and visualize two-dimensional Gaussian functions. CRAN · GitHub · Paper 2021
pathviewr Import, clean, and visualize animal movement data from Flydra or Motive. CRAN · GitHub 2021
genbank_downloadR Batch download DNA or protein sequences from GenBank. Figshare · GitHub 2020
workloopR Import, transform, and analyze muscle physiology experiments. CRAN · GitHub · Paper 2019
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Data & code from pubs

Some of these repositories contain phylogenies that we’ve inferred, but see the Phylogenetic trees section below for straightforward access to MCC & ML trees.

Repository Article Year
Figshare Baliga VB, Dakin R, Wylie DR, and Altshuler DL.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · Article
2024
Figshare Dash S, Baliga VB, Lapsansky AB, Wylie DR, and Altshuler DL.
eNeuro · Article
2024
Figshare Harvey C, Baliga VB, Wong JCM, Altshuler DL, and Inman DJ.
Nature · Article
2022
Figshare Smyth G, Baliga VB, Gaede AH, Wylie DR, and Altshuler DL.
Current Biology · Article
2022
Figshare Harvey C, Baliga VB, Goates CD, Hunsaker D, and Inman DJ.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface · Article
2021
Figshare Leal PBC, Cabral-Seanez M, Baliga VB, Altshuler DL, and Hartl DJ.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface · Article
2021
Figshare Bahlman JW, Baliga VB, and Altshuler DL.
Journal of Experimental Biology · Article
2020
Figshare Baliga VB and Mehta RS.
Integrative and Comparative Biology · Article
2019
Figshare Baliga VB, Szabo I, and Altshuler DL.
Science Advances · Article
2019
GitHub Damsgaard C, Baliga VB, Bates E, Burggren W, McKenzie DJ, Taylor E, and Wright PA.
Acta Physiologica · Article
2019
Figshare Harvey C, Baliga VB, Lavoie P, and Altshuler DL.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface · Article
2019
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Phylogenetic trees

I am generally happy to share trees from posterior distributions — just shoot me an email.

Birds (Aves)

  • 222 taxa across Aves + outgroup; from Baliga et al. 2019 (Science Advances):

Gobies (Gobiidae)

  • 54 species of Western Atlantic gobies + outgroup; from Baliga and Mehta 2019 (Integrative and Comparative Biology):

Marine angelfishes (Pomacanthidae)

  • 72 species of marine angelfishes + outgroup; from Baliga and Mehta 2019 (Integrative and Comparative Biology):

Wrasses & parrotfishes (Labridae)

  • 344 species of wrasses + parrotfishes + outgroup; from Baliga and Law 2016 (Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution):