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Subject: Divergence Diagrams from distance matrices
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Date: 6 Feb 90 16:45:29 GMT
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Hi everyone--

I have a user who has a set of DNA fragments and an estimate of divergence
from each to each--rather like a distance matrix.  Is there a readily
useable program to draw estimated evolutionary trees from this data?
The software from other fields (namely SAS, SPSS, etc) will give us the
estimated 2-dimensional map using multidimensional scaling, and we can
then by hand estimate what a tree would be if we know the earliest point
on the map.  If there is a method more standard for molecular biologists,
we would like to know before re-inventing a procedure.

Thanks for your comments..

Paul Schneeman
U. C. Davis
PRSCHNEEMAN@UCDAVIS.BITNET (or .EDU)