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 only handle files with a single tree, taxon, and characters block. It returns a reference to an array containing one or more taxa, trees and matrices objects.

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,v 1.22 2006/03/04 23:51:03 rvosa Exp $

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.