Newickâs 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 |
| Step 5.2 | Test creating Newick strings | Here you will test your new makeNewick function |