5.0 Saving trees

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Newick's restaurant near Dover, New Hampshire Newick’s Lobster House was the site of an historic 1986 meeting at which a standard was devised for storing descriptions of phylogenetic trees as strings. These newick tree descriptions (also called the New Hampshire format) became part of the NEXUS file format (described in Maddison, Swofford, and Maddison, 1997), which is a standard file format for storing systematic data that is still widely used despite the advent of NexML.

In this step you will learn how to save a tree in memory in the form of a string known as a Newick tree description. You will also begin using some functionality from the Boost C++ library.

Step Title Description
Step 5.1 Create a Newick tree description

In this section you will write the makeNewick function, which creates a string that records both the topology and edge lengths of the tree.
Step 5.2 Test creating Newick strings

Here you will test your new makeNewick function

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