Building and manipulating trees

createbranch!(tree::AbstractTree, src, dst[, len::Number];
              data)

Add a branch from src to dst on tree with optional length and data. source and destination can be either nodes or nodenames.

deletebranch!(tree::AbstractTree, branch)
deletebranch!(tree::AbstractTree, src, dst)

Delete the branch branch from tree, or branch connecting src node to dst node.

createnode!(tree::AbstractTree[, nodename]; data)

Create a node on a tree with optional node info.

createnodes!(tree::AbstractTree, count::Integer)
createnodes!(tree::AbstractTree, nodenames)
createnodes!(tree::AbstractTree, nodedict)

Add a number of nodes, a vector with given names, or a Dict with node names and associated node info to a tree.

deletenode!(tree::AbstractTree, node)

Delete a node (or a name) from a tree

droptips!(tree::AbstractTree{OneTree}, tips)

Function to drop tips from a phylogenetic tree tree, which are found in the vector of tips or tip names, tips.

keeptips!(tree::AbstractTree{OneTree}, tips)

Function to keep only the tips in a phylogenetic tree, tree, that are found in the vector of tips or tip names, tips.