PHYLIP DNA parsimony (dnapars) GUI

GUI for DNA parsimony algorithm in PHYLIP 3.6.

Description

This package includes a modified version of dnapars.exe from Phylip 3.6. The orignal dnapars,exe uses a menu for settings of parameters. I changed it into a command-line driven one, called mbetoolbox_dnapars.exe. Then I built a MATLAB interface for it. Within MATLAB, after setting the path, set you may type:

1) >mbetoolbox_dnapars, or
2) >mbetoolbox_dnapars(seq_no)

where species_no is an integer indicating how many sequences in your input file. The input file is an aligned DNA sequences in Phylip format and should be named 'infile'.

For more information about Phyip package, please refer to: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip.html

-- James J. Cai
WWW: http://web.hku.hk/~jamescai/

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)