NAME

Bio::Phylo::Parsers::Fastnewick - Parses newick trees. No serviceable parts inside.

DESCRIPTION

This module parses tree descriptions in parenthetical format. It is called by the Bio::Phylo::IO facade, don't call it directly. It is different from Bio::Phylo::Parsers::Newick in that it does not add unique labels to internal nodes (it does respect the ones that are already there, though) and it is about four times faster. However, it is not considered 'stable', yet (i.e. there might be bugs).

SEE ALSO

Bio::Phylo::IO

The newick parser is called by the Bio::Phylo::IO object. Look there to learn how to parse newick strings.

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: Fastnewick.pm,v 1.2 2006/03/14 12:01:57 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.