[Biopython-dev] [Biopython - Feature #3217] (New) Bio.Phylo I/O support for the NeXML format

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Issue #3217 has been reported by Eric Talevich.

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Feature #3217: Bio.Phylo I/O support for the NeXML format
https://redmine.open-bio.org/issues/3217

Author: Eric Talevich
Status: New
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Eric Talevich
Category: Main Distribution
Target version: Not Applicable
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The future data exchange standard is... approaching rapidly. NeXML is going to become the format of choice for TreeBASE, Mesquite and probably MIAPA-targeted tools over the next year or two, and Biopython should be there to support it.

Notes:
* Another Python library, DendroPy, already supports (some of?) the NeXML format. Jeet Sukumaran and Mark Holder changed the license to BSD to allow other projects -- particularly us -- to share their code. So let's start there.
* NeXML was designed so its elements can be treated as RDF triples, so see if RDFLib can help -- either as the underlying parser, or to provide some additional (optional) functionality.

See:
http://nexml.org/
http://packages.python.org/DendroPy/
http://www.rdflib.net/


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