[Biopython] parsing newick trees in memory

Matthew Strand stran104 at chapman.edu
Sun Oct 10 07:37:55 UTC 2010


You might find useful: Newick: A python module for parsing trees in the
Newick file format.

http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/newick.html

Cheers,
Matt Strand
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On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Michael Thon<mike.thon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a String containing a tree in newick format and I want to turn it
> into biopython objects.  The Bio.Phylo.read() function seems to only take
> file names or file handles as parameters.  Is there any way to do this
> without actually saving the string to a file first?
> Thanks
> Mike
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