Re: [Treebase-devel] charsets?

[Rutger V. <R....@re...>]

> For those that do, it seems only visible in the nexus format, not
> nexml.  Can we get charset tags in nexml?
>
> Yes, that should be easily doable. Maybe Laurel Yohe (a new Google Summer of
> Code author) can implement this as an exercise to get to know TreeBASE's
> code.  We need a NeXML solution both for expressing CHARSET free text and
> for expressing the row-segment metadata like the Genbank accession number.

That should be doable, yes.

> Also, for a given matrix, is the order of characters the same, if I
> download it in nexus and nexml?  If so, I suppose it would be easy to
> just pull out the charset info from the nexus file.
>
> Yes, if I understand what you're saying. Of course, the order of the
> characters are not shuffled (!!) but I don't know why you might think that
> could happen.

The characters are indeed in the same order.

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