[BioC] R and ARB

[A.J. Rossini]

"Nicholas Lewin-Koh" <nikko at hailmail.net> writes:

> I have a package in development for fitting additive tree models to data.
> Basically the core of the package is and R interface to TRex, Vladimir
> Makarenkov has givien me permission to release this on CRAN or
> Bioconductor under gpl. Besides the TRex functions for least squares
> fitting of trees and reticulograms, I am adding functions for plotting,
> rooting trees, a tree class that extends the graph class and some more
> general stuff for additive trees were one has replicate distance matrices
> as often occurs in psychology. I would like to add tools for maximum
> likelihood estimation, but I am not sure of the phyllip license and I
> don't want to appropriate code if it is not kosher. I am still working on
> some of the tree display algorithms which is going slow since I hold a
> job in the day that is not opensource friendly. 
> If anyone is interested in codeveloping I am happy to share the load :)

I'd avoid phylip, since commercial institutions might not be able to
use it (Joe F has a really strange license on it).

See the "ape" package in CRAN which does some of this stuff as well...

best,
-tony

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