From: "Susan B. Farmer" sfarmer@GOLDSWORD.COM To: TDWG - Structure of Descriptive Data TDWG-SDD@USOBI.ORG
As a person who went from DELTA to PAUP and tried to come back again (after much massaging of the data), I'd add that the transferrance needs to go both ways -- after you port your data to PAUP/MacClade and massage it somewhat, it would be nice to (relatively) painlessly come back to DELTA with those changes rather than having to begin from scratch and then combine the two data sets.
The program Nex2del, supplied with our DELTA programs, converts a Nexus data matrix to DELTA format. Information will usually be lost in converting DELTA to Nexus, so it's usually better to edit the data in DELTA format and re-export to Nexus as necessary.
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Mike Dallwitz
CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Phone: +61 2 6246 4075 Fax: +61 2 6246 4000 Email: md@ento.csiro.au Internet: biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/