What is [&R] at start of .newick file?
tseemann opened this issue · 2 comments
tseemann commented
[&R] ('file1':888 ....
andrewjpage commented
It indicates the tree is rooted. The tree is generated by DendroPY:
http://dendropy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/treemanips.html
I'm afraid I dont know what the history of this syntax update is.
tseemann commented
Figtree seemed to understand it, i've just never encountered it before!
I'm not sure if there is a true modern Newick specification.