PHYLIP(1)

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💖 PHYLIP(1) — the General Commands Manual glow-up 💖

okay bestie, so this is the PHYLIP(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and it's basically the lil backstage pass to a whole squad of phylogeny programs. pull up a chair, we're going through it together 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

phylip — runs various phylogenies programs 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

phylip program [arguments]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so this manual page documents, briefly, the phylip wrapper around the Phylip programs. lowkey important context: this page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original program did not have a manual page. so yes, we're the ones doing the lord's work here 🫶

phylip is just a wrapper that invokes the various programs in the Phylip phylogeny software package. it's giving "middle manager of phylogenetics" honestly, but it slays at it. if you want the actually detailed documentation, go poke around /usr/share/doc/phylip, where you'll find one helpfile for each program. one helpfile per program. iconic organization, no notes 👑

and the following programs are included, no cap, the whole roster:

  • clique
  • contrast
  • dnainvar
  • dnamove
  • dollop
  • drawgram
  • fitch
  • mix
  • penny
  • restml
  • consense
  • dnacomp
  • dnaml
  • dnapars
  • dolmove
  • drawtree
  • gendist
  • move
  • protdist
  • retree
  • contml
  • dnadist
  • dnamlk
  • dnapenny
  • dolpenny
  • factor
  • kitsch
  • neighbor
  • protpars
  • seqboot

that's thirty whole programs. thirty. the range. the versatility. the way that a single command can hold all of them 💀✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

bestie. sit down. are you sitting down.
  • There are no options. none. zero. the void. empty. that's it, that's the whole section 🙈

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

like, literally just this:

phylip dnapenny
phylip factor

see? name of the wrapper, name of the program. boom. that's the entire vibe 🎀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • treetool(1),

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> and Dr. Guenter Bechly <gbechly@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). absolute legends, we stan 🌸🫶

and that's the page!! 💖 this was April 16, 2001 energy, from the PHYLIP(1) era of the manual, and we're keeping it alive. go run some phylogenies, bestie, you've got this 🌈⭐💜

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