Re: Bug#415418: components of phylip give wrong tree files

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Elo Peter wrote:

> Various programs in the phylip package (proml, fitch) describe wrong
> phylogenetic trees. The problem should be in the common parts which
> outputs the "outtree" files. Since for example the distance matrix file
> produced by protdist is correct, but fitch -using this orrect matrix -
> describes the same nonsense tree like proml from the same alignment.

Thanks for the bug report.  I have to admit that I do not use phylip
personally and thus I have to relay on a very detailed description
of your problem.  At first I would like you to ask whether you could
upgrade aour phalip version currently residing in unstable.  It is
not that the package of phylip itself is unstable but it will not
make its way into Etch because testing was frozen before the latest
upgrade of the package.  If you could do an

   apt-get -t unstable install phylip

on your machine (assumed you have unstable in your sources.list,
if not feel free to ask again how to configure apt to install only
packages from unstable at request) and do your tests with this
recent version and this shows the same problem I would like to
report this problem upstream and ask them whether there is a
solution.

I also CC the debian-med mailing list because there are people
hanging around that are more knowledged than me in this field.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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