Bioinformatics Toolbox™

phytreeread - Read phylogenetic tree file

Syntax

Tree = phytreeread(File)

`File`	Newick-formatted tree files (ASCII text file). Enter a file name, a path and file name, or a URL pointing to a file. `File` can also be a MATLAB^® character array that contains the text for a file.
`Tree`	`phytree` object created with the function `phytree`.

Tree = phytreeread(File) reads a Newick formatted tree file and returns a phytree object in the MATLAB workspace with data from the file.

The NEWICK tree format can be found at

http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/newicktree.html

Note This implementation only allows binary trees. Non-binary trees are translated into a binary tree with extra branches of length 0.

tr = phytreeread('pf00002.tree')