RE: MacClade and PAUP

["Andrew A. Farke" <andyfarke@hotmail.com>]

> > From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> > David Peters
> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 7:55 AM
> > To: dinosaur list
> > Subject: MacClade and PAUP
> >
> > I have been using MacClade to input data and create the matrix ? and
> > then I use PAUP to evaluate the data, like everyone else, or so I had
> > assumed. A colleague told me to send my data and so I sent the MacClade
> > file. Then he/she told me they could not open my file because they did
> > not have MacClade.
> >
> > Question is: how does one input data if not with MacClade? How can I
> > help my colleague get the data?

And, there are a number of freeware/shareware programs out there that can
create NEXUS files, or any other file schemes you might like (particularly
for those of us who aren't MacHeads). In fact, (somewhat contrary to popular
belief), one can even do cladistics without PAUP*!

The Willi Hennig Society's website has a good listing of the software that's
out there--some of it is freeware, some shareware, some commercial.

http://www.cladistics.org/education.html

WinCladA and Treeview are both particularly nice Windows-based programs. NDE
is a great [free!!!!] NEXUS data editing program
(http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/NDE/nde.html).

Andy 

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