CAOS-Workbench

(Character Attribute Organization System)

CAOS-Barcoder

Extracting Diagnostic Character States in Molecular Sequences

Creating a CAOS-Barcode from the character attributes and group file.

The result of this tool will include a reference matrix (Ref_matrix.xls)
that lists all unique characters for each Node in a single chart.
The result will also include a single or multiple overview files (depending on your
threshold selection) that will sort out all unique characters of each taxa for all
nodes in separate charts.


Step 1:
Choose CAOS_attributesfile (*.txt) from your computer (Example):


Step 2:
Choose CAOS_groupFile file (*.txt) from your computer (Example):


Step 3:
Choose Alignment (*.fas or *.fasta) from your computer (Example):

Advice: This step is voluntary, but including the alignment will
improve the resolution of the overview files!
Step 5: Total barcode overview can only be created when alignment was included!

Step 4:
Choose character type:
DNA
Protein


Step 5:
Choose character threshold for overview:
All characters (sPu + sPr + other) Example
Only sPu & sPr characters, other characters are masked Example
All sPu characters (homogeneous and heterogeneous) Example
Only homogeneous sPu characters, other characters are masked Example
Only homogeneous sPu characters in both branches Example
Total barcode overview (only with Step 3 alignment!)Example


Step 6:
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