NAME

Bio::TreeIO::lintree - Parser for lintree output trees

SYNOPSIS

# do not use directly, use through Bio::TreeIO
use Bio::TreeIO;
my $treeio = new Bio::TreeIO(-format => 'lintree',
                             -file   => 't/data/crab.nj');
my $tree = $treeio->next_tree;

DESCRIPTION

Parser for the lintree output which looks like this

 13 sequences     1000 bootstraping
1 A-salina
2 C-vittat
3 C-sp.
4 L-aequit
5 P-camtsc
6 E-tenuim
7 L-splend
8 P-bernha
9 P-acadia
10 P-p(NE)
11 P-p(GU)
12 P-l(NE)
13 P-l(GU)
14 and   2        0.098857      1000
14 and   3        0.127932      1000
15 and   1        0.197471      1000
15 and  14        0.029273       874
16 and  10        0.011732      1000
16 and  11        0.004529      1000
17 and  12        0.002258      1000
17 and  13        0.000428      1000
18 and  16        0.017512      1000
18 and  17        0.010824       998
19 and   4        0.006534      1000
19 and   5        0.006992      1000
20 and  15        0.070461      1000
20 and  18        0.030579       998
21 and   8        0.003339      1000
21 and   9        0.002042      1000
22 and   6        0.011142      1000
22 and  21        0.010693       983
23 and  20        0.020714       996
23 and  19        0.020350      1000
24 and  23        0.008665       826
24 and  22        0.013457       972
24 and   7        0.025598      1000

See http://shanghai.bio.psu.edu/lintree.html for access to the program and N Takezaki, A Rzhetsky, and M Nei, "Phylogenetic test of the molecular clock and linearized trees." Mol Biol Evol 12(5):823-33.

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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich

Email jason-at-bioperl-dot-org

CONTRIBUTORS

Ideas and discussion from: Alan Christoffels Avril Coghlan

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

new

Title   : new
Usage   : my $obj = new Bio::TreeIO::lintree();
Function: Builds a new Bio::TreeIO::lintree object 
Returns : an instance of Bio::TreeIO::lintree
Args    : -nodetype => Node type to create [default Bio::Tree::Node]

next_tree

Title   : next_tree
Usage   : my $tree = $treeio->next_tree
Function: Gets the next tree in the stream
Returns : Bio::Tree::TreeI
Args    : none

nodetype

Title   : nodetype
Usage   : $obj->nodetype($newval)
Function: 
Example : 
Returns : value of nodetype (a scalar)
Args    : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)