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phytree object - Data structure containing phylogenetic tree
Description
A phytree object is a data structure containing a phylogenetic tree.
Phylogenetic trees are binary rooted trees, which means that each branch is
the parent of two other branches, two leaves, or one branch and one leaf.
A phytree object can be ultrametric or nonultrametric.
Method Summary
Following are methods of a phytree object:
Property Summary
Note
You cannot modify these properties directly. You can access these properties
using the get method. |
| Property | Description |
| NumLeaves | Number of leaves |
| NumBranches | Number of branches |
| NumNodes | Number of nodes (NumLeaves + NumBranches) |
| Pointers | Branch to leaf/branch connectivity list |
| Distances | Edge length for every leaf/branch |
| LeafNames | Names of the leaves |
| BranchNames | Names of the branches |
| NodeNames | Names of all the nodes |
See Also
Bioinformatics Toolbox™ functions: phytree (object
constructor), phytreeread, phytreetool, phytreewrite, seqlinkage, seqneighjoin, seqpdist
Bioinformatics Toolbox methods of phytree object: get, getbyname, getcanonical, getmatrix, getnewickstr, pdist, plot, prune, reroot, select, subtree, view, weights
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