[Biopython] Combine nexus files but not concatenating them

[Denzel Li]

Hi Peter:
Yes, it is basically the same thing returned by "nexus.combine" but
"interleaved".  A further question is that, is it possible to split one
nexus into several nexus according to the Charset (or partition) defined in
the file. Like in the concatenation example (
http://biopython.org/wiki/Concatenate_nexus ), split the combined file into
btCOI.nex,btCOII.nex and btITS.nex.

Thanks,
Denzel


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Denzel Li <denzel.dz.li at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all:
> > I notice there is a solution for combining nexus files as appeared in the
> > cookbook
> > (http://biopython.org/wiki/Concatenate_nexus ).  However, in the example
> the
> > alignments are concatenated. What if I want is, for example, the
> following
> > two files are combined into one file as shown in "combinedFile.nex".
>
> I was under the impression that NEXUS files should only hold
> one alignment matrix. Why do you need it done this way? Isn't
> your example basically the same thing but interleaved?
>
> Peter
>