[BioPython] PHYLIP

[Cymon J. Cox]

Hi Michael,

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 23:41 -0700, Michael Fahy wrote:
> I've just started using BioPython and have worked through the Cookbook
> section on calling clustalw from Python to do alignments.  It would be cool
> to use clustalw to produce PHYLIP-format files and then call the PHYLIP
> programs to produce phylogenetic trees from them.

If your doing phylogenetics in Python you should checkout Peter Foster's
P4 (http://www.bmnh.org/~pf/p4.html).

>   Has anyone already worked
> this out?

Probably, but then few people continue to use phylip on a regular basis
these days...

Cheers, C.
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