Spart Explorer is a user-friendly web platform, in which species hypotheses are based on DNA sequences using two popular species delimitation tools, ABGD and ASAP. The platform also implements LIMES, which can compare different partitions. Species partitions obtained on the platform or uploaded from local files can then be compared in a dynamic and intuitive graphic representation, associated to a phylogenetic tree, to facilitate result interpretation and comparison in an integrative taxonomy framework.
When using Spart Explorer, you can start with a species delimitation analysis using ABGD and ASAP, simply by uploading your DNA sequence alignment. The species partitions obtained can then be compared with LIMES, which will calculate some statistics related to the similarity difference between each pair of partitions, and then visualized in the graphic interface: the spart viewer. Alternatively, you can also directly upload species partitions in the spart format, obtained independently with other tools, or even prepared de novo from e.g. morphospecies hypotheses, and visualize them in the spart viewer. Here, you will be able to compare visually all the partitions in front of a phylogenetic tree, organize them by simply drag-and-drop them, hide/show any you want, in order to more easily decide which partition(s) is/are the more likely, in an integrative taxonomy context.