[Bioperl-l] How to Remove root node from a tree, ???

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kenzy ken wrote:
> Hi all:
>    I write a script which used the Bio::Tree module. I want to remove some
> nodes from the tree, so I used "$tree->remove_Node($node_object);method 
> . It
> works ok, but when I remove root node, problem happened. It seens that this
> method can not remove root node, so ,if you guys have any idea about how to
> remove the root ,it will be very appreciated.

You'll have to re-root the tree to some other node in the tree. See the 
reroot() method.

(I don't think Bio::Tree::Tree objects can be unrooted.)