drawing trees

Gene Cutler cutler at tularik.com
Wed Sep 5 00:59:59 UTC 2001


I finally got around to trying this, using protdist and neighbor as 
suggested below.
That worked, but gave me an ascii tree.  Is there any way to get a 
tree in postscript
format?



>Gene Cutler asked:
>
>>Hello, all.  I have a question about phylogenetic-type trees for
>>sequences.  I haven't quite figured out how to do this using
>>emboss/phylip.  This is how I have been doing this with gcg:
>>
>>run gcg program distances on the msf file
>>run gcg program growtree on the distances file
>>
>>How would I do this with PHYLIP instead?
>
>The GCG DISTANCES program and GCG GROWTREE programs are very similar to
>the DNADIST/PROTDIST and Neighbor programs in PHYLIP.  In other words,
>they allow phylogenetic trees to be constructed using "distance-based"
>methods, but do not allow maximum likelihood or parsimony methods to be
>used.  They also don't do bootstrapping tests, tree comparisons, and
>lots of other things.




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