FAQ

General

What is mx being used for?

• See publications.
• See the public projects.

What software is needed to run mx?

• Mx can run on a wide range of platforms. See Installation.

Data entry/import

What mechanisms are available for entering data?

• Data can be entered in a number of different ways
  • individually via forms
  • in batches via the web interface
  • in batches via the server side console (Rake tasks)
  • individually via the Rails console

Manually entering data one a time can be very annoying, what kind of data can I batch load into mx?

• Nexus formatted matrices
• Lucid's .xls formatted exports
• .obo formatted files (in part)
• Newick formatted trees
• Specimens and lots
• Individual Otu names
• Verbatim collecting events (labels)
• Single word epithets (children) of taxon names (e.g. species names for a genus or genera of a family)
• Image files (via a Rake task/command line)
• References to MorphBank images
• FASTA files (fall 09)