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Converts trees from Nexus format to Newick format. Depends on Dendropy.
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nexus2newick.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from dendropy import TreeList
NEWICK = 'newick'
NEXUS = 'nexus'
try:
stream = sys.argv[1]
except:
stream = sys.stdin
TreeList.get_from_path(stream, NEXUS).write(sys.stdout, NEWICK)
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