[BioPython] Phylogenetics trees

[Jeffrey Chang]

Certainly!  We're happy to take any Python tools that may be of use to
biologists.

Have you seen Mavric at OpenLab?  It's pretty similar to what you
describe, and they may already have a front-end that suits your needs.
http://www.bioinformatics.org/mavric/index.html

Jeff



On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Greg and Lisa wrote:

> Hello everyone:
> 
> I've been lurking in this list for quite a while, and feel bad about not
> contributing anything yet. I knw that BioPython is primarily concerned with
> sequence analysis tools, but I've been working on a set of classes that read
> Newick-formatted phylogenetic trees, and allow you to manipulate them
> (re-rooting, ladderizing, deleting leaves, rotating clades, etc.) It can
> handle bootstraps, branch lengths, and multifurcating nodes. I'm also
> working on a Tkinter front end, but that's a bit further behind. Is there
> any interest in having this sort of thing within the BioPython distribution?
> 
>     - Greg Singer
> 
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