README

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               SUPERTREE TOOLKIT v2
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The supertree toolkit is a Python module and GUI to edit, 
create, curate and process data ready for inclusion in 
supertree analyses. It also contains tools for post-processing
and analysing supertrees.

Currently the software in in alpha and is meant to replace all
the functionality of v1 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/stck/)
which was published in BMC Research Notes
(http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/3/95).

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Installation
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You need to add the Supertree Toolkit PPA 
(https://launchpad.net/~stk-developers/+archive/release) to your system, 
along with an additional one which contains some dependencies. 
You can then install the package. Run the commands below to do all this.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fluidity-core/ppa
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:stk-developers/release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install supertree-toolkit


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References:

Davis and Hill, 2010. The Supertree Tool Kit
BMC Research Notes 3:95. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-3-95