NAME

Bio::Phylo::Parsers::Nexus - Parses nexus files. No serviceable parts inside.

DESCRIPTION

This module parses nexus files. It is called by the Bio::Phylo::IO module, there is no direct usage. The parser can handle files and strings with multiple tree, taxon, and characters blocks whose links are defined using Mesquite's "TITLE = 'some_name'" and "LINK TAXA = 'some_name'" tokens.

The parser returns a reference to an array containing one or more taxa, trees and matrices objects. Nexus comments are stripped, private nexus blocks (and the 'assumptions' block) are skipped. It currently doesn't handle 'mixed' data.

SEE ALSO

Bio::Phylo::IO

The nexus parser is called by the Bio::Phylo::IO object. Look there for examples of file parsing and manipulation.

Bio::Phylo::Manual

Also see the manual: Bio::Phylo::Manual.

FORUM

CPAN hosts a discussion forum for Bio::Phylo. If you have trouble using this module the discussion forum is a good place to start posting questions (NOT bug reports, see below): http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/Bio-Phylo

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-bio-phylo@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Bio-Phylo. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. Be sure to include the following in your request or comment, so that I know what version you're using:

$Id: Nexus.pm 3318 2007-03-19 23:54:49Z rvosa $

AUTHOR

Rutger A. Vos,

email: rvosa@sfu.ca

web page: http://www.sfu.ca/~rvosa/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author would like to thank Jason Stajich for many ideas borrowed from BioPerl http://www.bioperl.org, and CIPRES http://www.phylo.org and FAB* http://www.sfu.ca/~fabstar for comments and requests.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Rutger A. Vos, All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.