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From: davison@MENUDO.UH.EDU (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: Features needed in phylogeny programs (request)
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Date: 25 Nov 90 22:20:46 GMT
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Joe Felsenstein asks:

>   What features are needed in future programs for inferring phylogenies?

The most useful thing I can think of is the ability to read and write
different sequence file formats.  Incorporation of Don Gilbert's
readseq (I think there's a pascal version) would be good, but there
are up-and-coming formats, like Vax PAUP and Mac PAUP (3.0) that would
be very useful too.

BTW, is anyone know if PAUP 3.0 officially released yet? I've written
(snail and e-mail) and called once but haven't gotten any reply (yet).

Thanks, Joe, for all the work on Phylip!

dan

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