Bio::Phylo - An object-oriented Perl toolkit for analyzing and manipulating phyloinformatic data. DESCRIPTION Phylogenetics is the branch of evolutionary biology that deals with reconstructing and analyzing the tree of life. This distribution provides objects and methods to aid in handling and analyzing phylogenetic data. COMPATABILITY Bio::Phylo installs without problems on most popular, current platforms (Win32, OSX, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD), on Perl versions >= 5.8.0 For a list of automated test results visit: http://testers.cpan.org/show/Bio-Phylo.html INSTALLATION Bio::Phylo has no dependencies for its core install. However, some additional functionality will not work (e.g. XML parsing) until the CPAN module that enables it has been installed (e.g. XML::Twig). You can install these at a later date if and when need arises. If any of such additional CPAN modules are found to be missing at installation time, a warning will be emitted, but installation can continue. To install the Bio::Phylo distribution itself, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install (For platform specific information on what 'make' command to use, check "perl -V:make". On Windows this usually returns "make='nmake';", which means you'll need the free 'nmake' utility) AUTHORS Rutger Vos Jason Caravas Klaas Hartmann Mark A. Jensen Chase Miller Aki Mimoto BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-bio-phylo@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Bio-Phylo I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the BioPerl project for providing the community with a terrific toolkit that other software, such as this, can be built on (http://www.bioperl.org); and Arne Mooers from the FAB* lab (http://www.sfu.ca/~fabstar) for comments and requests. The research leading to these results has received funding from the [European Community's] Seventh Framework Programme ([FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement n� [237046]. SEE ALSO Read the manual: perldoc Bio::Phylo::Manual CITATION If you use Bio::Phylo in published research, please cite it: Rutger A Vos, Jason Caravas, Klaas Hartmann, Mark A Jensen and Chase Miller, 2011. Bio::Phylo - phyloinformatic analysis using Perl. BMC Bioinformatics 12:63. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-63 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2005-2011 Rutger Vos, All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.