[Biojava-l] Newick/Nexus processing of non-binary trees

[Tiago Antão]

2009/11/13 Thasso Griebel <thasso.griebel at uni-jena.de>:
> just my two cents, but I would go with a default weight of 1.0. If you read
> something unweighted you would ignore the edge weights anyways, but, for
> example, if you write something simple that computes path lengths, a default
> weight of 1.0 ensures that the method also works for "unweighted" trees,
> where the length of a path is defined as the number of edges you need to
> traverse to move from say A to B. I think the argument also hold for other
> algorithms used on trees and graphs.

OK, I will do this.