Is there any function available in Phylo.jl to read phylogenetic trees from xml file?

[efmanu]

Hi,
I am looking for a function to read phylogenetic trees from xml file, something similar to following python implementation:

from Bio import Phylo
# download this from http://www.phyloxml.org/examples/apaf.xml
tree = Phylo.read('apaf.xml', 'phyloxml')

Can anyone reply?

[mkborregaard]

There isn't anything in Phylo for this right now.

[richardreeve]

Does anyone actually use phyloxml? I've actually never heard of it before and a lot of the links from the phyloxml website seem broken... if it's a common format we could look into supporting it, but it doesn't seem very popular - for instance google returns ~60M hits for nexus format and ~350k for newick format (both of which Phylo supports), but only ~16k for phyloxml format.