droptip.pl - prunes a list of tips from input tree.
<tree file> <taxa file>
The droptip.pl program prunes the taxa listed in <taxa file> from the tree specified (as a newick tree) in <tree file>. I (RVOSA) needed just such an operation to be performed somewhere in a work flow I was setting up. Using the Bio::Phylo libraries this was trivial, and so now this script is mostly meant to illustrate some of the functionality of the libraries.
A text file containing at least one newick formatted tree description (first tree is used).
A list of taxa to prune from the tree, one taxon name per line.
-h|-help|-?Print help message and quit.
The program requires a valid newick-formatted tree file and a file containing taxon names, one name per line.
Rutger Vos: http://search.cpan.org/~rvosa
