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A Practical Guide to Phylogenetics for Nonexperts

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A phylogenetic C interpreter for TNT.

Pablo A Goloboff¹, Martín E Morales¹

¹Unidad Ejecutora Lillo (Fundación Miguel Lillo - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), S. M. de Tucumán 4000, Argentina.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

|March 30, 2020

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A new C interpreter with ISO essentials is now integrated into TNT phylogenetic analysis software. This enhancement provides a standard scripting language and a phylogenetic library, significantly expanding TNT's capabilities for tree and data manipulation.

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Area of Science:

Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Evolutionary Biology

Background:

TNT is a widely used program for phylogenetic analysis.
Its previous scripting language implementation was nonstandard and idiosyncratic.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the implementation and basic usage of a new C interpreter for TNT.
To introduce a phylogenetic library that extends TNT's functionality.

Main Methods:

Integration of a C interpreter adhering to ISO essentials into the TNT software.
Development of a phylogenetic library with functions for tree and data manipulation.

Main Results:

The new C interpreter offers a standard and extensible scripting capability within TNT.
The phylogenetic library enhances TNT's utility for complex phylogenetic analyses.

Conclusions:

The inclusion of a standard C interpreter and a dedicated phylogenetic library significantly broadens the scope and power of TNT.
This upgrade facilitates more sophisticated manipulation of phylogenetic trees and data.