[BioPython] Cladograms

[Renato Alves]

@David and Giovanni
Thank you both for your feedback.

I guess I will give R a more decent try.
In the meanwhile I guess I found myself a python small side project :) .

I will be sure to contribute with the code if I get to any decent result.
Renato

Quoting David Winter on 11/27/2008 09:52 PM:
> Renato Alves wrote:
>> Quoting Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio on 11/27/2008 04:45 PM:
>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Renato Alves 
>>> <rjalves at igc.gulbenkian.pt> wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I've been searching the web for python modules to do cladograms but 
>>>> the only
>>>> relevant stuff I found was relative to dendograms and hierarchical
>>>> clustering which will give the representation I need.
>>>> My goal is something that resembles a heatmap[1]
>>>>     
>>> Let me premise that I am not able to help you :).
>>> But this seems to be the kind of things that R does. Have you had a 
>>> look at it?
>>>   
>> For the heatmap I did have a look and seems easy to use, for the 
>> cladograms I couldn't find much using the name with help.search(). 
> [snip]
>
> Hi renato,
>
> Have you looked into the R package  ape (analysis of phylogentics and 
> evolution, install.packages("ape")) - it has object classes for phylip 
> and nexus trees. I don't know how easy it is to kludge things together 
> from different packages but it might be worth looking into? There is a 
> python module to integrate with R if you want to stay pure ;)
>