[R-sig-phylo] Calling Clustal in R the DNAbin format for storing nucleotides

Hi all, I've recently turned to R for scripting an analysis consisting of many boring jobs repeated with many files I could automate. I'm learning perl and had a go with BioPerl but had trouble getting PhyML to get called from within it using the run modules - any who I'm a much longer R user

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Calling Clustal in R the DNAbin format for storing nucleotides

Hi Ben, Clustal accepts labels up to 30-character long. You can solve your problem by changing the labels using the function makeLabel (see its help page for some details). I'll change clustal() to avoid this problem in the future. You can find details on DNAbin here: