FastMorphologyGFC

FastMorphologyGFC ­is a program written in Python to transform an initial rough data matrix of ­Specimens X Characters into a ready to use Nexus Paup-file in fractions of a second. Any type of character can be incorporated, including multistate polymorphic, although continuous characters (measurements) should be transformed before hand (see below). The progr­am uses the Generalized Frequency Coding Technique (GFC; Smith Gutberlet, 2001) to transform character states into a parsimony-friendly coding.