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2) Import fasta file or paste sequences into a great format conversion online tool: the ... 5) Open the nexus file in WordPad and edit the nexus lines as follows:.
It is a bit of time I was thinking that this post may be of help to people intersted in genealogical network reconstruction under the median joining algorihtm. www.Fluxusengineering.com provides, free of charge, the phylogenetic Network Software in its as of today version 4.611. Network makes use of the median joining algorithm to generate genealogical trees from DNA, aminoacid, linguistic and other data but can also provide age estimates for the ancestral nodes in the tree topology. I have used several times this software in the past and I was impresed for its versatility, the graphics (compared to the sister software TCS or Splitstree) and its friendly interface. However, contrary to TCS and Splitstree, the Network team suggests the use of “recommended” add-ons such as DNA Alignment, Network Publisher and pibase for importing data without errors, create publication quality graphics and generating network input files (.rdf) from next generation sequencing files respectively. The issue is, despite Network is freely distributed, the add-ons are not. In this post I suggest a quick and free mode to create input nexus files for Network starting from DNA or amino acid sequences aligned with… your preferred algorithm. I found this path to be always successful and literally based in few clicks of your mouse but I am sure there are other ways to do it. Example alignment files are from Poore and Andreakis 2012 1) Align your sequences and create a fasta file; pay attention to the taxon names: the first 6 characters need to be different 2) Import fasta file or paste sequences into a great format conversion online tool: the format converter v2.0.5 3) Convert file in “nexus sequential” format

4) Download and save the nexus file

5) Open the nexus file in WordPad and edit the nexus lines as follows:

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See that I have only changed the second line from “begin taxa” to “begin data” and then deleted the name list. The rest remains the same. Once you have imported the nexus input file in Network and have computed your tree, Network will create the so much desired .rdf file. You can now keep your tree or open the .rdf file in Network if you wish, modify, weight your ε as you like, save and continue with your analyses.