Nexus file
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Nexus file format is widely used in Bioinformatics. Several popular phoylogenetic programs such as Paup and MacClade use this format.
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[edit] Syntax
Command inside square breaket [ and ] are ignored (comment).
Each block start with
BEGIN block_name;
and finish with
END;
[edit] Basic blocks
- TAXA block
The TAXA block contains information about taxa.
- CHARACTER block
The CHARACTER block contains information about the data matrix.
- DATA block
The DATA block contains the data matrix (e.g. sequence alignment).
[edit] Paup
- ASSUMPTIONS block
- SETS block;
- TREES block
- CODONS block
- DISTANCES block
- PAUP block
This block contains all the commands used by Paup*. Please refer to Command Reference Document - Second Draft for detail describtion of each command (PDF format).
