In article <schwarze-210594022958 at fennel.bio.caltech.edu> schwarze at starbase1.caltech.edu (Erich Schwarz) writes:
>In article <2pl73q$j09 at sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>,
>rensing at sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Stefan Rensing) wrote:
>>>> To everyone who is concerned with construction of phylogenetic trees.
>>>> I'm doing this announcement as 'beta-tester' of TREECON.
>> TREECON was developed by Yves Van de Peer, University of Antwerp.
>>>> TREECON 3.0 is a program package for the construction of phylogenetic
>> trees....
>>>> A disadvantage is that no parsimony or maximum likelihood methods are
> ^^ ^^^^^^^^^
>> to be run with TREECON.
>>> Boooo! <throws spoiled fruit> ;^)
>
I agreee with Erich here. If it doesn't do parsimony, it must be
distance-based. If it's distance based, it's phenetic. If it's
phenetic it's not phylogenetic.
It's hard to believe this still has to be said after all of these years!
mark
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Virginia Inst. Marine Sci.
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