Trimming trees with TreeBeST

Posted: 2020-01-18 | Author: | Filed under: academic | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I needed a program that can easily trim branches from a phylogenetic tree and came across TreeBeST (Tree Building guided by Species Tree). TreeBeST is a neat and versatile program that builds, manipulates and displays phylogenetic trees and seems to be perfect for the job.
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Cleaning up with sed

Posted: 2017-03-31 | Author: | Filed under: academic | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I needed to clean up some plain text files from data and characters I did not want.

To be more precise, I have a phylogenetic tree, obtained from the TimeTree web-site. Species presented there are mainly birds, several reptiles and a fish. The tree has branches length information and node labels, which I wanted to remove.
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