Simple pairwise matching for DNA barcoding



Damon P. Little1

1Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA


description

This suite of scripts is designed to evaluate the relative discriminatory power of a set of loci for DNA barcoding. These scripts were used by the Plant Working Group to evaluate candidate loci for land plant DNA barcoding. Please see the README.txt file for instructions and examples.

requirements

PERL interpreter
DBI/DBD for MySQL
Statistics::R [To get the Statistics::R package to run properly you may have to modify the `Linux.pm' file by changing the line `$this->{START_CMD} = "$this->{R_BIN} --slave --vanilla --gui=none"' to `$this->{START_CMD} = "$this->{R_BIN} --slave --vanilla"'].
MySQL
MUSCLE
R

citation

Little, D. P. 2009. Simple pairwise matching for DNA barcoding. Program distributed by the author. http://www.nybg.org/files/scientists/PWG.html

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