> I think, alas, there is no such program in the clustal package -
one thing
> I tried was feeding the clustal alignment back into the pileup
program,
> making sure pileup doesn't change anything, just draws the tree
:-)
> (maybe that was too lazy ??).
> I would be glad to learn about a program using clustal input to
draw a tree,
> however.
Clustal DOES give info for a tree - and from multiply-aligned
sequence comparisons rather than from the initial comparisons of
unaligned seqs which is what pileup does (Clustal does the same only
it is called a dendrogram, comes in tabular form, and is used asis
the same info in pileup, for the subsequent alignment process). The
trouble is...it is in a rather unfriend;y form unless you are a
sucker for deciphering gumph (I am) and for constructing trees by
hand in a drawing pgm. NJDRAW (which circulates with NJTREE ver.2
for PC) can draw a very nice tree from the output data of CLUSTALV
NJ option (with some editing), suitable for direct printing on HP
plotter. BUT you lose the bootstrapping facility of CLUSTALV.
TREECON does an even better job of treemaking. Details available
from me or from the Net.
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