When publishing work that uses OrthoFinder please cite: Emms D.M. & Kelly S. OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics (2019), Genome Biology 20:238 Emms D.M. & Kelly S. OrthoFinder: solving fundamental biases in whole genome comparisons dramatically improves orthogroup inference accuracy (2015), Genome Biology 16:157 If you use the species tree in your work then please also cite: Emms D.M. & Kelly S. STRIDE: Species Tree Root Inference from Gene Duplication Events (2017), Mol Biol Evol 34(12): 3267-3278 Emms D.M. & Kelly S. STAG: Species Tree Inference from All Genes (2018), bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/267914 OrthoFinder also depends on a number of tools which make its analysis possible. These tools are cited in the OrthoFinder paper, but are also being used in any analysis that uses OrthoFinder. In order to recognise the contributions that these authors have made, please also consider citing the following as you feel is appropriate: DIAMOND protein alignment: Buchfink B., Xie C. & Huson D.H. Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND (2015) Nat Methods 12:59-60 MCL clustering algorithm: Van Dongen S. Graph clustering by flow simulation (2000). PhD Thesis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. ETE Tree library for all tree handling: Huerta-Cepas J., Serra F. and Bork P. ETE 3: Reconstruction, analysis and visualization of phylogenomic data (2016) Mol Biol Evol DendroBLAST distance algorithm for orthogroup trees: Kelly S., Maini, P.K. DendroBLAST: approximate phylogenetic trees in the absence of multiple sequence alignments (2013) PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058537 FastME tree inference: Lefort V., Desper R., Gascuel O. FastME 2.0: A Comprehensive, Accurate, and Fast Distance-Based Phylogeny Inference Program (2015) Mol Biol Evol 32:10 Non-default options (these tools are not ordinarily used but are among the more common options that can be selected by the user): MAFTT: Katoh K. & Standley D.M. MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability (2013) Mol Biol Evol 30:4 FastTree: Price M.N., Dehal P.S., and Arkin A.P. FastTree 2 -- Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments. (2010) PLoS ONE, 5(3) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009490 BLAST protein alignment: Altschul, S.F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E.W. & Lipman, D.J. Basic local alignment search tool (1990) J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410