Software

Utilities for manipulation of common phylogenetic analysis files in Windows. Written for execution in Python 2.5.2

nex2dat.py - Python script that takes Nexus format data file and outputs .dat format file.

pairwise_distances.py - Python script that takes pairwise distances output in the form of a Paup log file and puts all pairwise distances in a single column.

short_genbank.py - Python script that takes exported genbank files and truncates the filename to <10 characters without taxon label redundancy. Ready for import to programs requiring .dat format. Also outputs a csv file (open in Excel) showing old name and new name.

Written by: dfdeshom@gmail.com.
Versions in progress, coding history, and most recent versions hosted at http://www.bitbucket.org/dfdeshom/phylogenetic_utils/overview/