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Revision as of 14:46, 18 September 2009
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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)