# Fast UniFrac with Mothur

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/fast-unifrac-with-mothur/133>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [February 3, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/fast-unifrac-with-mothur/133 "2010-02-03T19:50:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![maqayoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@maqayoom](https://forum.mothur.org/u/maqayoom)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/fast-unifrac-with-mothur/133/1 "2010-02-03T19:50:17Z")

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Hi,

Does anyone know if Mothur uses or in future will use Fast Unifrac?

Thanks,  
Mohamad

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**Author:** ![pschloss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/pschloss/32/4_2.png) [@pschloss](https://forum.mothur.org/u/pschloss)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/fast-unifrac-with-mothur/133/2 "2010-02-03T20:43:31Z")

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Not sure, we’ll see. I guess we’ll probably have to so we can keep up with the Jones’s.

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**Author:** ![maqayoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@maqayoom](https://forum.mothur.org/u/maqayoom)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/fast-unifrac-with-mothur/133/3 "2010-02-03T20:48:53Z")

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Excuse my ignorance – Who are the Jones’s?

Thanks,  
Mohamad

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**Author:** ![pschloss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/pschloss/32/4_2.png) [@pschloss](https://forum.mothur.org/u/pschloss)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/fast-unifrac-with-mothur/133/4 "2010-02-03T20:55:24Z")

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Sorry - it’s a dumb American expression.

> **[Keeping up with the Joneses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses)**
>
> Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority. The phrase originated in a comic strip of the same name.
> The phrase originates with the comic strip Keeping Up with the Joneses, created by Arthur R. "Pop" Momand in 1913. The strip ran until...