phylogenic analysis with emboss

[Guy Bottu]

from : BEN

>I was wondering which tools you used for phylogenic analysis, since I can't
>find any treedrawing in either emboss or embassy's phylip.

If I am not wrong, the EMBOSS on-line help states explicitly that the tree 
drawing programs and the tree editors of PHYLIP were not included in the embassy 
PHYLIP. So, you should retrieve the original PHYLIP package from 
evolution.genetics.washington.edu and use the programs drawgram and drawtree.
Note that while embassy has integrated PHYLIP version 3.53c, there is now a 
version 3.6a2, which is definitively better. drawgram/drawtree has now for 
previewing the graphic an X-display and the generated PostScript files can not 
only be send directly to a printer, but can also be incorporated into documents 
like MS-Word doc files.

Another useful freeware tool I know about is NJplot, which is distributed 
together with CLUSTAL (which you must install anyway in order emma to work).

	Guy Bottu