Take a look at:
D.R. Maddison, D.L. Swofford, W.P. Maddison. 1997. NEXUS: an extensible
file format for systematic information. Systematic Biology, 46(4): 590-621.
At 12:38 PM 5/12/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Dear molecualr evolutionists,
>> I just went searching for pre-built multiple sequence
>alignments on which to test some phylogenetic software.
>> I found quite a few sets available on the WWW
>by searching YAHOO (http://www.yahoo.com/) for
>"multiple sequence alignment". However, I did not find
>the same format at each site, and most sites provided
>text formats from which comments and annotations needed
>to be removed prior to re-formating for analysis.
> It would be a huge help, if we could all agree
>on a format (such as FASTA format) that could be saved
>and retrieved for analysis, as well as the text formats for
>human reading or printing.
> At the HIV Database, we try to provide both text
>and more machine-readable formats for our alignments.
>Is FASTA format the "industry standard" or are there reasons
>to use another format?
>>--
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