HyperTriplets - Triplet-based supertree generator

Introduction:

HyperTriplets is a phylogenetic tool that makes a supetree based on triplets 
analysis. It takes as input several gene trees in Newick format. 

Prerequisites:

Unix Platform;
PERL;

For impatients:

> tar -zxvf HyperTriplets_vXXX.tgz
> cd hypertriplets
> ./hypertriplets_db -treedir <tree_directory>
> ./hypertriplets_analayse -table <hash_file> 

For detailed description of HyperTriplets parameters:

> ./hypertriplets_db -man
> ./hypertriplets_analyse -man

Installation:

HyperTriplets is ready to use  in  most  of  Unix  Platform.  But  it  only 
works if the  folder  lib/  that follow this script is  in  the  same 
location. If you want to freely run HyperTriplets  in  other  location, add  
the HyperTriplets folder  into  the  environment  variable  by  using,  for 
example, the following commands:

> echo "export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/program/hypertriplets/" >> ~/.bashrc
> source ~/.bashrc

Running with sample files:

In the hypertriplets directory try the following commands
> ./hypertriplets_db -treedir sample_trees/ -out sample_db.tab
> ./hypertriplets_analayse -table sample_db.tab -out sample_result

Outputs:

hypertriplets_db: 
  *.dat:		file with OTU found in the tree;
  *.dis:		file containing the mean distance of OTU pairs;
  *.tri:		file containing the frequence of each triplet topology;
hypertriplets_analyse:
  *.best.nwk:     the best supertree found in Newick format.
  *_allTree.nwk:  all tree generated by hypertriplets in Newick format.
  *_allScore.txt: score of generated tree.
  
  *_itol.txt:   a file containing a pie chart dataset with branch support values.
                Upload the supertree and this file to iToL.