[BioC] hclust to newick format?

[Thomas Girke]

For phylogenetics work, you also may want to evaluate the 
ape library on CRAN:
http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/packages/ape/index.html

Thomas

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Julia Engelmann wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
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> check out:
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> library(ctc)
> ?hc2Newick
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> HTH,
> Julia
> 
> 
> michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I am asking the bioC list as it is more likely to contain
> > biologists tha R-help!
> >
> > Has anyone written any code to convert an hclust object to newick
> > format?
> >
> > For those of you who don't know, newick is a simple tree
> > representation format used extensively in phylogenetic analysis:
> >
> > (B:6.0,(A:5.0,C:3.0,E:4.0):5.0,D:11.0);
> >
> > I am looking to see if certain statistical properties can be used
> > in hclust which will mirror a phylogenetic tree based on DNA
> > sequence, and for that I want to use some of the phylogenetic tree
> > drawing tools on my hclust data, all of which accept newick as
> > standard
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Mick
> >
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