MissingDataFX version 0.1.1

MissingDataFX v0.1.1

Testing effects of missing data on phylogenetic inferences

This is MissingDataFX v0.1.1, a new initial release version that is still in active development.

What's new?

This version of MissingDataFX introduces several changes, including:

• A fix for a bug resulting in "No such file or directory" errors on sed and rm calls for '*_taxonLabels.txt' files under STEP #3, which caused final data files and some R plots not to be generated. I fixed this by introducing scripts that check the initial MissingDataFX.sh run output (MDFXTester.sh), fix the problem by creating a "*_taxonLabels.txt" file (fetchTaxonLabels.sh), and then re-run MissingDataFX.sh on sub-folder contents, completely from scratch.
• Minor improvements to the code (e.g. using find instead of ls; double-quoting $/variable names to avoid globbing or splitting).

MissingDataFX major version zero

MissingDataFX v0.1.0

Testing effects of missing data on phylogenetic inferences

This is MissingDataFX v0.1.0, major version zero for initial development. MissingDataFX public release v0 runs out of the box, with no bugs. However, this is a 0.1 release because this software may be in development, and new minor additions and fixes may be added soon, before a major version 1 release.

Missing data is an important consideration in the theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics, as well as the design of phylogenetics studies. MissingDataFX automates exploratory analyses examining the amount of missing data in phylogenetic datasets (NEXUS character partitions), as well as testing the form and potential significance of relationships between missing characters and phylogenetic tree parameters (nodal support, branch lengths).