Our lab has recently acquired an imaging system from
Scanalytics for molecular epidemiological studies using gel
electrophoresis applications such as PFGE.
The imaging system software includes a cluster analysis
program called PHYLIP from Joe Felsenstein at the University of Washington.
It includes a UPGMA cluster analysis program that produces
dendrograms. However, the branches in dendrograms
do not represent the length distances, and instead you must look up
the distances on the charts provided. In addition, the program is a
DOS program and is not very easy to use.
I wanted to find out if there are any Windows based cluster analysis
software programs that can import data to produce dendrograms
based on UPGMA or any other algorithm that represent the
accurate topology of branch lengths.
Texas Department of Health
ldelrosario at laba.tdh.state.tx.us
