In article <1990Jun17.172847.16667 at watserv1.waterloo.edu>
pastern at watsci.uwaterloo.ca (Jack Pasternak) writes:
> I am seeking a better way to draw phylogenetic trees on the MAC.
"Tree Draw Deck" is a macintosh Hypercard deck for drawing phylogenetic
trees. I hacked it together from Christopher Meacham's PlotGram and
PloTree phylogenetic tree drawing programs, from the Phylip 3.2 package
(I had all the parts lying around from other purposes, and guessed it
would take me a half day to put this together. Three days and several
black oaths later here it is...).
Tree Draw Deck contains documentation, and will produce MacDraw compatible
picture files. The general format of a tree description that you must
feed it is, for example for a doubleforked tree with four tips:
((A:2, B:1):3, (C:1, D:4):2); {for internode lengths}
or
((A:5, B:4):3, (C:3, D:6):2); {for cumulative node levels}
It is available as a BinHex, Stuffit encoded file via anonymous FTP from
the Iubio archive as:
> ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu
ftp> user: anonymous
ftp> password: guest
ftp> cd [archive.molbio.mac]
ftp> get treedraw.hqx
ftp> bye
Those of you without ftp access who want a copy of this deck, please send
me a e-mail message. The file is 201 Kbytes in size.
-- Don
Don.Gilbert at iubio.bio.indiana.edu
biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405, usa
