# Querying QIIME's plugins generally, and for making phylogenies specifically **URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/querying-qiimes-plugins-generally-and-for-making-phylogenies-specifically/19866 **Category:** General Discussion **Tags:** phylogeny **Created:** [June 11, 2021, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/querying-qiimes-plugins-generally-and-for-making-phylogenies-specifically/19866 "2021-06-11T11:38:57Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![ChrisKeefe](https://forum.qiime2.org/user_avatar/forum.qiime2.org/chriskeefe/32/1907_2.png) [@ChrisKeefe](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/ChrisKeefe) #### Post date: [June 15, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/querying-qiimes-plugins-generally-and-for-making-phylogenies-specifically/19866/2 "2021-06-15T19:23:24Z")
Good questions, @wburgess ! I'm not an expert on tree-building, but [this topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/mafft-or-fragment-insertion/17474/6) should give you a good place to start exploring. As for querying available methods by input or output, I don't _think_ anything like that exists at this time. I can imagine tooling like that being a neat addition to the framework, or to specific interfaces, but I'm not sure whether anything like that is on the current roadmap. Searching the [library](https://library.qiime2.org) for tools that take a certain input type or produce a certain type of output could be useful. @thermokarst or @ebolyen could probably give you a better sense of the likelihood of something like this being developed, potential technical barriers, etc. Best, Chris --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/querying-qiimes-plugins-generally-and-for-making-phylogenies-specifically/19866)._