In article <1996Apr29.111128 at ebi.ac.uk>, <higgins at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Joe Felsenstein mentions in a different followup post that you could use
>> the proposed label format of NH to do this. That would indeed keep
>> us all happy as long as everyone switched to it. Go to it Joe :-).
>Sorry, me again (now I am talking to myself). I read what Joe said again
>and it looks like those labels were always in the NH format. The problem
>is finding the format definition.
Well, there are two problems:
(1) I need to find time to finish and publish the Newick's tree format
paper, including getting its authors to comment on whatever I write.
(By the way they have so far voted for calling it "Newick's" (the
name of the restaurant) rather than "New Hampshire".
(2) We need to get our own programs to adhere to our own standard. My
PHYLIP package is one of the least-adhering. We hope to change that
in a good way at the next major release. Right now those labels that
I advocated actually are within the standard -- but will cause trouble
in my own programs!
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Joe Felsenstein joe at genetics.washington.edu (IP No. 128.95.12.41)
Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington, Box 357360, Seattle, WA 98195-7360 USA
