[Bioperl-l] Convert newick to nexus format

[Jason Stajich]

Something is wrong with your install I am guessing - can you run the  
tests?
Go to bioperl directory:
$ perl t/TreeIO.t

can you describe how you installed bioperl?

On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Neha Nahar wrote:

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> Hi,
> Thank you for the code.
> I tried it but I still get the same exception.
>
> ------------- EXCEPTION  -------------
> MSG: Cannot call method write_tree on Bio::TreeIO object must use a  
> subclass
> STACK Bio::TreeIO::nexus::write_tree /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ 
> 5.8.8/Bio/TreeIO/nexus.pm:170
> STACK toplevel ./nexus1.pl:18
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> Please find attached the perl file(nexus.pl).
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> Using  bioperl-1.5.2_101.tar.gz module from http://search.cpan.org/ 
> ~sendu/bioperl/Bio/TreeIO.pm
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> Please let me know if I am using the correct version.If not, please  
> point me to the latest one.
>
> Thank you.
> Regards,
> nnahar
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> Jason Stajich <jason at bioperl.org> wrote:please  cc the mailing list  
> when asking a question or followup.
>
> Sorry I don't know what you are doing wrong - you didn't resend  
> your code so I don't know if you still have a typo.
>
> This code works fine for me
>
> use Bio::TreeIO;
> use strict;
> my ($filein,$fileout) = @ARGV;
> my ($format,$oformat) = qw(newick nexus);
> my $in = Bio::TreeIO->new(-file  => $filein, -format => $format);my  
> $out= Bio::TreeIO->new(-format => $oformat, -file => ">$fileout");
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> while( my $t = $in->next_tree ) {
>  $out->write_tree($t);
> }
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> On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Neha Nahar wrote:
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> Thank you very much for the reply.
>
>
> I fixed the code as per your suggestion,but now am getting a  
> different error:
>
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> $ ./nexus.pl mrp-input.txt nexus.out
> newickfile=mrp-input.txt, nexusfile=nexus.out
>
>
> -------------  EXCEPTION  -------------
> MSG: Cannot call method write_tree on Bio::TreeIO object must use a  
> subclass
> STACK Bio::TreeIO::nexus::write_tree /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ 
> 5.8.8/Bio/TreeIO/nexus.pm:170
> STACK toplevel ./nexus.pl:23
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> Please help me out with this script.
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> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Neha
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> Jason Stajich <jason at bioperl.org> wrote: you want to write the TREE  
> out not the TREE WRITER.
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> $treeout->write_tree($tree)
>
>
> not
> $treeout->write_tree($treeout);
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> On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Neha Nahar wrote:
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>
> Hello everyone,
>
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> I am trying  to convert newick tree to nexus format.
> Using the script (refered from and email from George dated Wed Sep  
> 22 11:52:47 EDT 2004) :
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> /*------------------------------------------------------------*/
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> $ cat nexus.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
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> use Bio::TreeIO;
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> ($NEWICKFILE, $NEXUSFILE) = @ARGV;
> print "newickfile=$NEWICKFILE,  nexusfile=$NEXUSFILE\n";
> my $treeio = new Bio::TreeIO(-format => 'newick', -file   =>  
> "$NEWICKFILE");
> my $treeout = new Bio::TreeIO(-format => 'nexus', -file   => "> 
> $NEXUSFILE");
> while(my $tree = $treeio->next_tree) {
>         $treeout->write_tree($treeout);
>     }
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> exit 0;
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> /*------------------------------------------------------------*/
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> Running the script through command line:
> Gives the following error:
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> $ ./nexus.pl mrp-input.txt nexus.out
> newickfile=mrp-input.txt, nexusfile=nexus.out
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>
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> ------------- EXCEPTION  -------------
> MSG: Cannot call method write_tree on Bio::TreeIO object must use a  
> subclass
> STACK  Bio::TreeIO::nexus::write_tree /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/ 
> 5.8.8/Bio/TreeIO/nexus.pm:170
> STACK toplevel ./nexus.pl:23
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> Using  bioperl-1.5.2_101.tar.gz module from http://search.cpan.org/ 
> ~sendu/bioperl/Bio/TreeIO.pm
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> 1. Please let me know if I am using the correct version.
> If not, please point me to the latest one.
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> 2. Provided that the version I am using is the right one, please  
> let me know what is wrong with the script.
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> Thank you.
> Regards,
> Neha.
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> -Neha Nahar
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> lab: 510.642.8441
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