Text::Tradition::StemmaUtil(3)

NAME
Text::Tradition::StemmaUtil - standalone utilities for distance tree calculations

DESCRIPTION
This package contains a set of utilities for running phylogenetic analysis on text collations.

SUBROUTINES

  character_input( $tradition, $opts )
Returns a character matrix string suitable for Phylip programs, which corresponds to the given alignment table. See Text::Tradition::Collation for a description of the alignment table format. Options include:

•   exclude_layer - Exclude layered witnesses from the character input, using only the 'main' text of the witnesses in the tradition.

•   collapse - A reference to an array of relationship names that should be treated as equivalent for the purposes of generating the character matrix.

  phylip_pars( $character_matrix )
Runs Phylip Pars on the given character matrix. Returns results in Newick format.

  parse_newick( $newick_string )
Parses the given Newick tree(s) into one or more Stemma objects with undirected graphs.

  newick_to_svg( $newick_string )
Uses the FigTree utility (if installed) to transform the given Newick tree(s) into a graph visualization.

LICENSE
This package is free software and is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
Tara L Andrews <aurum@cpan.org>