Phytrans - Phylogenetic Translation Software

Phytrans is a conversion utility for translating Nexus, Phylip (Newick) and Pagel format phylogenies into a new format.  In order to run the program, type

phytrans filename tipfile

	where filename is the name of the file you wish to translate and tipfile is a file containing tip node data if you wish it to be added when converting to pagel format.  

	Tip files must be written in the following format:

		name1,1,0
		name2,0,0
		name3,0,1

	with no spaces in between the commas and the data.

Known Considerations:

Try to make sure the file has no additional spaces in.  This is not critical but may cause some apperence problems with the output format.

All Nexus files must have a TRANSLATE block with the node names numbered.  The numbers must then be used in the parentheses representation.

Both Nexus and Phylip files must end their parentheses with a semi-colon.

Phytrans can cope with discrete, continuous or multi-state data, as long as there are no more than 10 peices of data per node.	   