https://github.com/stuntspt/concatenator
A PERL program for DNA and protein data matrix conversion and concatenation.
https://github.com/stuntspt/concatenator
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A PERL program for DNA and protein data matrix conversion and concatenation.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/stuntspt/concatenator
- Owner: StuntsPT
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2014-10-30T11:53:02.000Z (over 11 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-09-19T22:39:56.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-11T05:44:59.478Z (12 months ago)
- Language: Perl
- Size: 25.4 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: license.txt
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# Concatenator
This was my first "real" program. It is still quite useful in phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies, however, since this program was first released, several others have started implementing the functions present in *Concatenator*.
Concatenator is written in perl and released under the GPL license.
# Usage
*Concatenator* can be used for essentially two things: converting between FASTA and NEXUS formats and concatenating 2-5 NEXUS files.
## Format conversion
Given a FASTA input, *Concatenator* will convert it into the NEXUS format. The user can choose the *type* of NEUXS output - *leave* or *interleave*; for this step, the user is requested further information, such as the data type, the "missing" data character or the "gap" character.
## Concatenation
*Concatenator* will take up to 5 NEXUS files as input and will concatenate them. The user can choose the output type - either formatted for *PAUP* or *MrBayes*.
# Limitations
The NEXUS format specification limits taxa names to 8 character, however, the FASTA format does not. *Concatenator* will trim any taxa names into the first 8 characters when performing the conversion. This is a frequent source of errors during the concatenation step, since some taxa may end up with the same name due to the trimming.
# How to cite:
If you find *Concatenator* usefull, please cite the following paper:
[Pina-Martins F, Paulo OS (2008). Concatenator: Sequence Data Matrices Handling Made Easy. Molecular Ecology Resources 8, 1254-1255](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21586013)
Your citation is much appreciated!