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NESCent Hosts Hackathon to Jumpstart
Development of Phyloinformatics Toolkit

[December 15, 2006]

By Bernadette Toner

The goal of the hackathon was to enhance the capabilities of the open source toolkits to work with phylogenetic software packages. In particular, developers worked on improving support for Nexus, a file format used in many of the leading phylogenetic software packages, and on building data models for exchanging phylogenetic information.

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