Bio::NEXUS 0.66 review

Bio::NEXUS is a Perl module providing an object-oriented, Perl-based applications programming interface (API). NEXUS is a powerful

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 149K Developer: Arlin Stoltzfus

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Bio::NEXUS is a Perl module providing an object-oriented, Perl-based applications programming interface (API).

NEXUS is a powerful and extensible format designed for use in evolutionary analysis, including the analysis of molecular sequence data as well as classical morphological and life-history data. It is the input or output format for software such as PAUP*, MacClade, Mesquite, SIMMAP, MrBayes, Nexplorer, and so on. This package also contains the demonstration applications nexplot.pl (plot character data with a tree) and nextool.pl (allowing programmatic editing, e.g., selecting particular clades or subsets of data).

The NEXPL library of Perl software (copyright 2004 Liang, Qiu and Yang) is distributed under an open source license (see LICENSE). If you use this software, please acknowledge:
Bio::NEXUS. An Object-oriented NEXUS API in Perl. T.J. Hladish, C.L. Liang, W.-G. Qiu, P. Yang, V. Gopalan and A. Stoltzfus. Available at http://www.molevol.org/camel/software.

INSTALLATION AND TESTING

This software has been tested under Linux as well as MaxOS X 10.2 and higher, and even a few Windows installations. The package installs using the standard procedure, and runs several hundred tests:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

For more information, or to customize, see doc/Installation.pod.

Requirements:
Perl