Treescore
The tree string module has a few functions that are useful for scoring trees based on the taxonomic information in the tree. Trees that are more taxonomically plausible will have higher scores.
The module uses the taxonomic information from uniprot to score trees using a recursive algorithm. The algorithm is described in the following paper:
Simple chained guide trees give poorer multiple sequence alignments than inferred trees in simulation and phylogenetic benchmarks Tan G, Gil M, Löytynoja AP, Goldman N, Dessimoz C Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2015