MEGA11
MEGA11 (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) is a computational biology software suite for building phylogenetic trees, performing multiple sequence alignments, estimating evolutionary distances, and testing molecular hypotheses. It is widely used by academic researchers, molecular biologists, and evolutionary biologists to analyse DNA and protein sequences. MEGA11 supports interactive tree construction, statistical testing, and data visualisation, and is distributed for Windows, Linux and macOS through the MEGA project website.
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1 suggestionWe could not confirm whether a native Apple Silicon build of MEGA11 is available from the search results we gathered — the most recent public information we found was from 2020, and there is no clear current documentation on the MEGA project website indicating native Apple Silicon or Universal Binary support. If you rely on MEGA11 for active research, contact the MEGA development team directly (through megasoftware.net) to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build exists today, or is planned before macOS 28 arrives in September 2028. An Intel-only build will stop launching on that release. In the meantime, you can continue running MEGA11 under Rosetta 2 if it functions adequately for your work, but planning an alternative is prudent given the tight timeline. Other phylogenetic tools with confirmed native Apple Silicon support include IQ-TREE2 (command-line) and BEAST2 (Bayesian), both open-source — these can be installed via Homebrew and may serve similar analytical needs.
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