Winclada

A windows program for creating, editing, and analyzing

systematic data sets
Basic Users Guide, by Diana Lipscomb
The program Winclada was written by Kevin Nixon of Cornell University. It contains many data editing
and tree analysis features as well as a shell for running Nona and implementing island hopping (=the rachet) and the
ILD test. The program will eventually be used as part of the upcoming TNT computer package for windows
machines.

CITING WINCLADA:
Nixon, K. C. 1999-2002. WinClada ver. 1.0000 Published by the author, Ithaca, NY, USA.

INSTALLING WINCLADA ON YOUR COMPUTER

1. Winclada can be downloaded from the web site http://www.cladistics.com. Once it is downloaded, double
clicking on the Winclada icon will start the program. This is all you really need to do, but the remaining instructions
may make running Winclada easier.

Option 1: To add Winclada to the program line of the start menu

a. Click on the “Start” button in the lower left corner of the screen.
b. Choose “Settings”
c. From the Settings menu choose “Taskbar & Start Menu”
d. From the Taskbar page choose “Start Menu Programs” and click on “Add”
e. Either type in the pathway to the program where you copied it, or let the computer find it for you using
“browse.” Make this connection to the Winclada program, not to the Winclada folder, e.g.
C:\Winclada\Winclada.exe.

Option 2: To make a short cut on your main screen

a. Double click on “My Computer” and open the folder where Winclada is located.
b. Click and drag the Winclada icon to your desktop.
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WINCLADA data files

To start the program, either click on the program’s icon or use the Start/Programs menu.

You will get message:

Dada has no data nyet

Opening an Existing Data File

a. Click on “File” in the menu bar

b. Choose “Open”
c. A window appears that allows you to select your file

Winclada will read most files produced by or for DADA, CLADOS, NONA, PIWE or HENNIG86. It will also read

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most simple (non-interleaved or transposed) NEXUS files. It also reads GDE and FASTA format files. Additional
support for other data formats is under development.
Using the default file extensions supported by Winclada makes loading these files easier:

.ss - Hennig86/NONA/DADA data file. The ss refers to the name of the original executable for Hennig86.
This stood for “SuperStar”.
.tre, .tree - A Hennig86/NONA/CLADOS compatible tree file.
.rat - A Hennig86/NONA/CLADOS compatible tree file that contains output trees from a ratchet run.
.gde - A file with GDE format matrix.
.fst - A file with a FASTA format matrix.
.nex, .nexus - A NEXUS format matrix.

Creating a New Datafile Using Winclada

a. Click on “Matrix” in the menu bar

b. Choose “New matrix (create)”
c. A box appears that prompts you for the number of taxa and the number of characters, and whether
you wish the multistate characters to be additive or nonadditive.
d. Set the values for your dataset – they can all be changed later.
e. Press “OK!Resize” to create the matrix (or “cancel” if you want to abort making this file)

This takes you immediately to the WinDada data editor window:

To enter or change the taxon names (Names of

Terminal Taxa):
a. Click on “Terms”
b. Choose “Terminal dialog”
c. A window appears that allows
you to scroll through and edit
taxa names. WinDada allows
you to use spaces and periods so
that a taxon name could be H.
sapiens, and need not be
H_sapiens. After you type the
name in click “APPLY” or
“NEXT” to assign the name.
d. Optional: You can type in
literature citations, descriptions,
or comments into the boxes
below. The abundance and
number of species boxes can be
used if you are using winclada to

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 create a biodiversity database.
e. Ambiguity Auto ON/OFF: When a taxon has several missing or inapplicable characters these may
cause it to be placed in more than one clade. If you want taxa with a more than a specific number
of missing characters to be automatically tagged, leave the “Auto apply ON” marked (this is the
default). If you do not want these to be automatically tagged, click “Auto apply OFF.” The
number of characters that results in a taxon being tagged can be set by going to “Taxa” and
selecting the “ambiguity filter”.
f. When finished entering all taxon names, press the X button in the upper right corner to return to
the matrix.

Long Taxon Names??

If a taxon’s name is long, the end of the name may be hidden behind the character chart. To fix
this, hold down the “shift key” and press the right arrow until all names can be easily read.

Entering Character Data

a. First unlock the matrix (this is a safety feature that prevents you from accidentally overwriting your
data).
- Click on “Edit”
- Choose “Unlocked - data entry allowed”
- OR just start typing and follow the prompts to unlock the matrix.

b. Enter data by simply typing over the dashes “-” in the matrix. Character states must be indicated by
numbers 0 to 9, or nucleic acid bases. Missing characters can be designated with a “?”
- The default setting is to enter numbers
- To enter A,C,G and T for nucleic acids:
• Click on “View”
• Choose “DNA (IUPAC) mode”

c. To facilitate entering data you can set which direction you want the cursor to move automatically when
you enter a character state. The default is for the cursor to automatically jump one space to the right in a
row of data – so that you can enter all the character data for a taxon at a time.

To change this:

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 - Click on “View” and choose “Cursor Settings” (a window opens)

The top three buttons determine which direction the cursor moves (if at all).

The next four buttons (which can be used together or separately) change the way the cursor looks
during data entry:

The “Display data” buttons in the third box allow you to view taxon names, character names and
state names while editing the data. For example:

By default, the background color of the character at the cursor position is black, and the character number
itself is white. This can be changed using the two color buttons at the bottom of the “Cursor Settings”
window.

Polymorphic Characters – You can enter more than one state for a taxon by clicking “Edit” and selecting “Enter
Polymorphisms.” Click all of the buttons that apply to the taxon.

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 To enter character descriptions

a. Click on “Characters”
b. Choose “Character dialog” and the
following window opens:
- Enter character names, state
descriptions
- click to choose how you want the
character treated (additive or nonadditive, etc)
c. Click “Apply” (or choose autoapply) and
use the “Next” button to advance to the next
character.

When finished, save the data file by:

a. Click on “Matrix”
b. Choose “Save as” the first time you
save a file.
c. Select to save as a “Winclada” file or
as a “Nona” file. To save all of the
citations, comments, etc you have put
into the taxon dialog boxes, choose
the Winclada mode or all of these
will be lost.

Viewing Character State Distributions

The Character panel Zone is a nice feature for viewing the distribution of character states in the taxa.
a. Click on “Interface”
b. Choose “ submode Cpanel” and the following window opens:

Use the “Prev Char” and “Next Char” to

scroll through the characters

By clicking “Mode” you can change to a table format for the information:

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Alternatively, you can examine the data using the T-panel.

a. Click on “Interface”
b. Choose “ T Panel” and the following window opens:

Try This –

This panel will also al1ow you to quickly score several taxa at once for a character – this also demonstrates some of
the nice features and flexibility to using Winclada. Suppose the data includes 5 species from a genus that are all
identical for character 5. Rather than type in the state five different times, we can –

1. Select the taxa by double clicking on them

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2. Go to Tpanel and click the state wanted for one of the taxa, followed by clicking “Apply to All
selected Taxa.”

3. Click “OK” and return to data matrix – all of the cells will be filled in with new values:

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 USING WINDADA TO MERGE DATASETS

When you have data from many different sources, you may want to keep it in different files yet run the data in
combination. The merge matrix options let you do this.

To merge data sets when the taxa are the same but there are two different sets of characters:

a. Use “File” and “Open” to open all the data sets you wish to combine
b. Click on “Matrix”
c. Choose “select all matrices”
d. Click on “Matrix” again
e. Choose “New Matrix Merge”. The following box opens allowing you to choose the parameters
that match your data’s organization

The Boxes:

4. Terminal Match – If the datasets have the same taxa (i.e., you are merging two different
character sets) click “Match by terminal order” or “Match by terminal name.” If the taxa are
different, click “Don’t match terminals”

5. Character Match - If the datasets have the same characters (i.e., you are merging two
different taxon sets) click “Match characters by order” or “Match characters by name.” If the
characters are different, click “Don’t match characters”

6. Orphan Control – If you have one data set for a taxon, but the second set is missing (for
example, you are merging a molecular and morphological dataset and you have not sequenced the
gene for one of the taxa), you can choose to keep the taxa with missing data marked as “-“ by
clicking “Keep orphan”, or eliminate it by clicking “discard orphan.”

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 7. Canned Heat

i. Concat/concat:

Matrix1: Matrix2 Merged Matrix

A 000 D 111 A 000---

B 110 E 011 B 110---
C 111 F 011 C 111---
D ---111
E ---011
F ---011

ii. Fuse/Concat:

Matrix1: Matrix2 Merged Matrix

A 000 A 111 A 000111

B 110 B 011 B 110011
C 111 C 011 C 111011

ii. Concat/Fuse:

Matrix1: Matrix2 Merged Matrix

A 000 D 111 A 000

B 110 E 011 B 110
C 111 F 011 C 111
D 111
E 011
F 011

USING WINDADA TO ANALYZE DATA

Winclada acts as a shell for using other programs as well as running some unique routines. You can use Winclada to
submit data matrices to Nona or Hennig86 using “Spawn.” Spawning opens these programs and submits the
dataset. You are then within these programs and you need to know how to run them in order to analyze your own
data.

A guide to using Hennig86 can be found at

Pablo Goloboff’s written instructions to Nona are excellent and very detailed. A short guide to the commands can
be found at

To analyze data using these programs:

a. Click on “Analyze”and select “Spawn”

b. Choose, for example, “Hennig86”

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 c. Set the path to tell WinDada where your copy of Hennig86 is. For example, “c:\programs\ss.com”
d. Repeat steps a and b and choose “submit the matrix.” A new window will appear with Hennig86 loaded and
the data file read in.
e. Save any trees using the “tsave” command in Hennig86. For example, “tsave filename.tre”
f. When finished, exit Hennig86 using the command “yama” and close the window by clicking on the X in
the upper right corner. You can open the tree in Winclada

Setting up Winclada to run Nona:

Winclada is an efficient and easy way to use the program Nona.

Citation for Nona: Goloboff, P. 1999. NONA (NO NAME) ver. 2 Published by the author, Tucumán, Argentina.

To make it simple to run Nona, place a file called autodada.dad in directory or folder with your copy of Winclada.
In the autodada.dad file, you must place a path statement to direct Winclada to the proper executable file for NONA.
For instance, if you use nona.exe and it is in the directory “c:\cladistics” you place the following command in
autodada.dad:

nonapath c:\cladistics\nona;

Note that the extension .exe is NOT required. The nonapath statement should be on a single line, with a semicolon
at the end.

Alternatively you can still set the path through the menu selections “SPAWN-NONA-SET PATH” but this will only
be in effect for the current session; in other words, you would need to do this every time you run the program. The
autodada.dad command file is a better option. If you have several directories with data, place a copy of the
autodada.dad file in each directory. You may also want to make a separate shortcut/icon for winclada for each data
directory - so that different projects can be kept in different directories, and merely accessed from the desktop with
different named winclada shortcuts.

Analyzing Data using Nona:

Clicking on Analyze brings up a submenu:

1. Heuristics
2. Rachet (Island
Hopper)
3. Incongruence test
4. Bootstrap/Jackknife
5. Select/Unselect
random taxa
6. Ambiguous
7. Spawn
8. Moleculoid
9. Kill

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1. Heuristics
Choosing heuristics brings up the following window:

a. Maximum trees to keep: This lets you set the number of trees to be kept in memory. The default is
100, and the maximum allowed by the program is 1000. This is equivalent to the “hold” command in
Nona.

b. Number of replications: Set the number of times you want the program to randomize the order of the
taxa, create a cladogram, and submits it to branch-swapping (storing in memory as many trees as set in the
previous box).

c. Starting trees: This determines the maximum number of trees to keep in each replication of branch-
swapping.

d. Random seed: The program uses a pseudo-random number generator to randomize addition sequences.
The default is to just use the time as the seed for the first replication.

e. Name of Stem: enter a name of a file where the output will be written. Two different files are created.
The first (with the .out extension) records the details of the search. The second (with the .tre extension)
records the trees obtained by the search.

The Search Strategy box allows you to fine tune the way in which the search is conducted:
a. Multiple TBR - searches for trees using tree bisection-reconnection method of branch-swapping.
b. Multiple TBR+TBR - searches for trees using tree bisection-reconnection method of branch-swapping,
then repeats this process the number of times indicated in the number of replications box.
c. Treefile+TBR - generates a basic cladogram and the branch-swaps on it using the TBR method.

What is a good strategy to use?

Most programs go through a long slow procedure in which much time is spent collecting and swapping on large
islands of trees that differ by minor rearrangements of a few taxa. What strategies can be used to avoid this
problem?

1. Maximize the number of distinct starting trees (e.g., have a high number of replications)

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 2. Reduce the number of trees kept during each replication (e.g., starting trees per rep low).
3. Collect the results and then branch swap for more complete results (e.g., choose multiple TBR + TBR).

An alternative choice is the Rachet.

2. Rachet (or island hopper)

- maximizes finding new starting points
- reduces the amount of time spent on each new search
- retains the most parsimonious trees

a. An initial tree is obtained. This is used as the initial lowest bound for number of steps.

b. A random subset of the characters is selected and weighted (5-25% have worked well in the past, but
you may need to play with this number).

c. The "new” data set is analyzed keeping only 1-few trees.

d. Weights are reset to original and the tree is swapped to find the optimal tree at that island.

Go Back to 2 and do it again

This iterative procedure is done automatically by choosing “Ratchet” from the “Analyze” menu.

Explanation of options settings box:

If trees are treated as polytomous, swapping takes a longer time (per tree) than simply comparing whether the trees
have different unsupported dichotomous resolutions, but when branches are collapsed fewer trees may have to be
swapped if the data produce unresolved clades.

poly= treats trees as collapsed; poly - treats trees as dichotomous

The amb command determines how strictly trees are collapsed

amb= collapses a branch only if ancestor and descendant have the same state for all characters. amb- collapses a
branch if the ancestor and descendant have different states under some resolutions of multistate characters or of “?”
(WARNING: This option - which is the default - may result in less parsimonious trees)

One additional modification of the rachet reported by Nixon (1999) is that it can be made more effective in finding
islands by randomly constraining a subset of groups during each iteration. He reports that this can be implemented
by randomly selecting between 10 and 20% of the nodes and constraining these during the weighted and equal
weights searches

When the “Island Hop” button is pressed, you will see Nona begin the analysis. When complete the
program automatically defaults to Windada and the shortest trees found are shown. A file that shows the
commands executed by Nona is written and called <filename>.pro

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3. Incongruence Test

Homogeneity is measured using the incongruence length difference test (Mickevich and Farris, 1981):

For data sets X and Y

DXY = L(X+Y) - (LX +LY)

Where
LX is the length of the most parsimonious tree from data set X
LY is the length of the most parsimonious tree from data set Y; and
L(X+Y) is the length of the combined analysis

DXY is 0 when the two data sets agree on the same tree; it is large when minimizing homoplasy in one data set
increases the other.
The Inconguence Length Difference (ILD) test extends this idea to make a statistic to reflect amount of
incongruence. This method works by resampling smaller data sets from the combined data set. If there is
significant disagreement between the two data sets, the added lengths of the resampled matrices will be
significantly longer than the tree lengths of the original matrices.

The matrix is resampled and the length is recalculated.

The matrix is resampled many times and a statistic is produced which, if the length incongruence of the resampled
matrices is smaller than the observed length incongruence, the null hypothesis that the data sets are congruent is
rejected.

a. Create different matrices for each data set.

b. Make sure that the different matrices are opened and selected (choose “Matrix” and click “select all
matrices”)

c. Choosing the ILD test from "Analyze” brings up the following window:

When “Run ILD test” is pressed you will see Nona run, then the output is written into a file, and the
following window appears:

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4. Bootstrap/Jackknife/Character Removal

To calculate measures of support choose Bootstrap/Jackknife/CR with Nona from the Analyze window. A dialog
box will open:

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USING WINCLADA TO EXAMINE TREES

After an analysis has been run, Nona or Hennig86 close and return to the Winclada shell to display the tree.

Alternatively, to see a tree that you have saved before:

a. Click on “Interface”
b. Choose “WinClados”
The dataset window will disappear and be replaced by a tree. This is not a most parsimonious tree - it is just
a ladder-like tree of your data. To see your trees:
- Click on “File”
- Choose “Open Tree File”
- Find and click on the tree file you created when you analyzed the data set:

Changing the Appearance of the Tree

Along the top just above the tree are a series of buttons for changing the way the tree looks.

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1. The first two allow you to zoom in (the green button with a “z”) and out (the yellow button with a “Z”). You
can also zoom up or down on a tree by toggling between using the “z” key and the “shift+z” key.

2. The position of the tree on the screen can be changed with the arrow keys.

3. The tree can be compressed or spread out using the F3, F4, F5, F6 keys, or these buttons:

4. The style in which the tree is drawn can be changed by clicking these buttons:

5. If more than one tree results from an analysis, you can scroll through the different trees using these keys:

6. The font and size of the taxon names can be changes by clicking “View” and selecting “Fonts.”
7. Use the last button to jump back to the Windada dataset window:

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 Optimization - Tracing Characters on the Tree

To understand basic character optimization, create a matrix with the following data:

Outgroup 0000000
A 0101000
B 0100000
C 1000100
D 1000110
E 1010110
F 1010111

Create a cladogram as described above and a tree will open.

To trace characters on a tree, click the button with a picture of a character state on a branch:

Black circles indicate nonhomplasious changes (synapomorphies or autapomorphies). White circles show
homoplasies (this dataset has no homoplasy).

You can change the colors used to denote homoplasy and nonhomoplasy by clicking “HashMarks” and
selecting “HashMark Properties”.

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 To label the circles with the character number (click button shown by red arrow) on top and character state
changes (click button shown by blue arrow) on bottom:

Click the character states button a second time and the character state transformation that defines the branch is
displayed (You might have to spread the tree out using the ↔ button to see this properly). Because this dataset is all
binary characters and they all change from state 0 to state 1, this isn’t very interesting—we’ll come back to this
when we cover more complex datasets:

If character and state names have been entered as information, words instead of numbers can be used to label
branches:

a. Choose “Hashmarks”
b. Select “Label hashmarks with char-names” and the name of each character will appear above the
black circles.

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 c. Select “Label hashmarks with state names” and the state for each character appears below the black
circle.

The character state changes can also be mapped on as colors (“MacClade Style”) by clicking the blue
button marked with an “X.” When this happens a dialog box opens that shows what state corresponds to
what color. Arrow keys allow you to click and scroll through all the different characters:

(By the way, I changed the colors traced on the tree by clicking on “View” and choosing “change tree state
colors.” Kevin prefers darker colors).

Optimizing Homoplasious Characters

Add a new character to the data set that is convergent in taxon A and F:
Outgroup 00000000
A 01010001
B 01000000
C 10001000
D 10001100
E 10101100
F 10101111

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Ambiguity at the Base of the Tree

Add a new character to the data set, in which the outgroup has one state and the ingroup members all have another:

Outgroup 000000000
A 010100011
B 010000001
C 100010001
D 100011001
E 101011001
F 101011111

A common misconception is that this is a synapomorphy that shows the monophyly of the ingroup, but it is also
possible that the state in the ingroup is plesiomorphic and the alternative state in the outgroup is derived (in other
words, it is an apomorphy for the outgroup). Therefore, the state at the base of the tree isn’t clear – it is ambiguous:

Other Ambiguous Optimizations: Actran and Deltran

To illustrate ambiguous optimization, create a matrix with the following data:

Outgroup 00000000
A 01010000
B 01000000
C 10001001
D 10001111
E 10101110
F 10101110

There is only one tree for the data, but the optimization of the last character is ambiguous. It may be convergent in
taxa C and D, or it may have evolved at the base of the C-D-E-F clade and reverse in E and F to state 0.

In Winclada, the default setting is to label unambiguous

optimizations only:

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To see the alternative optimizations, click “fast optimization” or “slow optimization” in the Optimization menu.

Fast optimization puts the change on the tree as soon as possible. This is sometimes called accelerated
transformation (or ACCTRAN).

Slow optimization puts the change on the tree as late as possible. This is sometimes called delayed transformation
(or DELTRAN).

To do this by hand follow these rules:

Fast or Accelerated (ACCTRAN) optimization -

1. The Downward Pass

Beginning with the terminal taxa and proceeding towards the root node, assign characters to the ancestral
nodes according to the following rules:

• If the terminal taxa or nodes have identical states, label the node with that state:
• In the terminal taxa or nodes have different states, then assign both states.
• If one taxon or node has a single state and the other node has both states, assign the majority state. If both
states are equally common then assign both states.

2. The Upward Pass

Begin to work from the root node upward, applying the following rules:

• If a state assignment is 0,1 then assign the state of the node immediately below it.
• If a state assignment is 1 or 0, then do not change it even if the character below is different.

The effect is to favor reversals over convergences when the choice is equally parsimonious.

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Slow or Delayed (DELTRAN) optimization:

1. The Downward Pass

Beginning with the terminal taxa and proceeding towards the root node, assign characters to the ancestral
nodes according to the following rules:

• If the terminal taxa or nodes have identical states, label the node with that state.
• In the terminal taxa or nodes have different states, then assign both states.
• If one taxon or node has a single state and the other node has both states, assign both states

2. The Upward Pass

Begin to work from the root node upward, applying the following rules:

• If a state assignment is 0,1 then assign the state of the node immediately below it.
• If a state assignment is 1 or 0, then do not change it even if the character below is different.

K. Nixon’s WARNINGS and ADVICE ABOUT TREES

Confusion still persists about the way in which NONA stores trees. By default, when using NONA, if you save
trees with the “sv” command, trees are saved as fully dichotomous - even if some branches are only ambiguously
supported (i.e., the minimum length under some optimization is 0 steps). Winclada simple reads a tree file - and if
the trees are dichotomous, it displays them as such. Thus, “unsupported” branches may be displayed. However,
under the default optimization (unambiguous changes only) if characters are mapped there will be no character
changes at those nodes.

To display ONLY branches that have a minimum length > 0, set the “VIEW” to collapse unsupported branches.

Note, that under FAST or SLOW optimization, branches that have a minimum length 0 may still have length under
that particular optimization, and will be shown as such.

Trees may be also saved as already collapsed by NONA by saving with the ksv command instead of sv command.
Such trees will be saved with “hard” polytomies wherever a branch has a minimum length of 0. This alleviates the
problem of collapsing branches, but note that it will not be possible to recover those nodes within Winclada (unless
you manually reinstate them with the mouse). Also, tree lengths may be greater than if the branches are left
uncollapsed, under certain conditions when two separate minimum length branches are collapsed that “conflict” in
terms of character optimizations. Thus, these trees may be reported as having more steps than thought when read
into Winclada or back into NONA.

Printing Trees
1. Click on “File”
2. Choose “Print Preview”
3. Use arrow keys, zoom keys, etc to make the tree look the way you want it to on the page
4. Click on “File” and choose “Print”

Alternatively save the tree in a “metafile” - this creates a bitmap image file of the tree which can be opened
in any standard paint or drawing program (e.g., Adobe photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc.)

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 Manipulating Trees
Using the Edit/Mouse button allows you to use the mouse to move branches, collapse nodes and make other
modifications of a tree:

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 Function Keys
The F keys modify tree proportions and move among trees in RAM:

F1 - decreases the width of hashmarks.

F2 - increases the width of hashmarks.

F3 - Contract tree on X axis. This function squeezes the hashmarks closer together and shortens the branches
incrementally.

F4 - Expand tree on X axis. This function spreads out the hashmarks and lengthens the branches incrementally.

F5 - Contract tree on Y axis. This function shortens the distance between adjacent branches, making the tree shorter
in the vertical axis.

F6 - Expand tree on Y axis. This function increases the distance between adjacent branches, making the tree longer
in the vertical axis.

F7 - Move to previous tree in ram. If no character mapping is on, a “quick” optimization for length only will be
performed. Otherwise, a “full” optimization will be performed (this may slow down things considerably with very
large trees).

F8 - Move to next tree in ram. If no character mapping is on, a “quick” optimization for length only will be
performed. Otherwise, a “full” optimization will be performed (this may slow down things considerably with very
large trees).

SHIFT- F1 - Decreases the height of hashmarks.

SHIFT-F2 - Increases the height of hashmarks.

SHIFT-F3 - Decreases branch thickness.

SHIFT-F4 - Increases branch thickness.

SHIFT-F5 - Decreases “shoulder” length. Explicit only for certain tree types, such as “angular” (gothic). This has
the effect of increases the angle or degree of curvature (e.g., “jetclad” trees) in the connecting line from a node to
descendant branches. In either gothic or jetclad trees, decreasing this will eventually result in a rectangular (clados)
style tree.

SHIFT-F6 - Increases “shoulder” length. See discussion for SHIFT-F5.

SHIFT-F7 - Undefined.

SHIFT-F8 - Undefined.

SHIFT-Z and z - Zoom tree in and out (scales tree). This not only affects the size of the tree on the screen, but also
has a direct effect on the size of the tree printed. As a rough idea for printing, select “print preview” under the FILE
menu and scale the tree to the page with this feature. See printing recommendations below, however.

SHIFT-X and x - Zooms the page view in PRINT PREVIEW MODE ONLY. Unlike z and SHIFT-Z, which change
the size of the tree as printed on the page, this zooming function just affects your view of the page. This allows you
to scale the view to see the entire page, and will allow viewing of multiple pages in future versions…

SHIFT-RIGHT ARROW - Next character in dos equis mode.

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SHIFT-LEFT ARROW - Previous character in dos equis mode.

‘s’ or ‘S’ – manually select a tree.

‘u’ or ‘U; - manually Unselect a tree.

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 Command Summary

Some of the commands are obvious, and I have not been anal enough (yet) to write out what each one of these
does.

Dada Data Editor

File
Open file Opens a window that lets you open a data file. By default, Winclada
assumes the files are either in Nona or Winclada format and have the
extension “.ss” or “.winc”. If you do not see the file you want, click on the
arrow next to the “Files of type” line and select “ALL files”
Open Tree file Opens a window that lets you open a data file. By default, Winclada
assumes the files have the extension “.tre” “.etf” “.nel” “.rat”. If you do not
see the file you want, click on the arrow next to the “Files of type” line and
select “ALL files”
WTRE inteliopen

Open enhanced tree file

Save current settings as default To change the default fonts

Read default settings To cause the default fonts to be applied

Interface
Windada Go to the Tree editor

Cpanel Scroll through the distribution of character states in the taxa

Tpanel Scroll through character districutions or make block changes to groups of

taxa
Key Use the data to construct an identification key

Matrix
Go to next matrix (F12) Several different data files can be open at once, but they can only be worked
on one at a time. This lets you hide one file and bring another into view so
that it can be edited or analyzed.
New matrix (create) create a new matrix

Save Overwrite the matrix with new data (a new matrix must be first saved in
either Nona or Winclada format)
Save as (Nona format)

Save as (Winclada format)

Close matrix exits a matrix

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Select current matrix When several matrices are open, any particular one will need to be “selected”
in order to have it sent to Nona (or other program) to be analyzed.
Unselect current matrix Keep a file open, but do not send it to be analyzed

Select all matrices When several files need to be combined or analyzed with the ILD test, open
them all and then select them all.

Expand matrix Opens a dialog box that lets you expand the data matrix by adding more
characters or more taxa (or both).
Set token key for matrix To set matching for data merges

Matrix dialog Enter character and state names, activate and deactivate characters, and make
characters additive or non-additive
Comment dialog Enter information, in paragraph form, about the matrix (not to exceed 1027
characters). If I have several matrices that differ just in the way some
characters or taxa are treated, I record what I need to remember for and
particular file in this dialog box.
Comment list A list of all the Comment dialogs for the matrix

Flag Cells Add color to cells to highlight ? or – or other special codes

New matrix merge Explained above in text

Edit
Locked no data entry

Unlocked data entry allowed

Enter polymorphisms A dialog box allows you to click all the states that apply to the character and
taxon indicated by the cursor in the data matrix
Sort by taxon names Put taxa in alphabetical order

Mark identical taxa Identical taxa will be highlighted.

Find and replace cell value For the row of data indicated by the cursor, you can have one state value
replace by another
Find terminal Jump to a taxon

Terms
Taxon dialog Enter taxon names (and set the ambiguity filter on or off)

Select all taxa

Unselect all taxa

Select taxa down from the cursor

Select taxa up from the cursor

Select taxa by scope Scopes are command lines that define a range of parameters (e.g., the cc
command in Nona or Hennig86 are scopes)
Unselect taxa by scope Scopes are command lines that define a range of parameters (e.g., the cc
command in Nona or Hennig86 are scopes)

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Invert taxon selection All taxa that were previously selected are unselected, and those previously
not selected are selected.
Activate selected taxa

Fuse selected taxa

Move selected taxa To beginning

To End

after Cursor

Delete selected taxa

Ambiguity filter Enter the number of “?” allowed in the data before the taxon is automatically
selected.
Number from 0 Labels the first taxon as taxon number “0" (as in Hennig86)

Number from 1 Labels the first taxon as taxon number “1"

Add terminals Adds a new taxon line to the bottom of the file

Rename by number only Replace taxon names with a number

Characters
Character dialog Enter names of characters and states, activate and deactivate characters, and
make them additive or nonadditive, or selected and unselected
GoTo character

Select all characters

Select characters right of cursor

Select characters left of cursor

Unselect all characters

Invert selected characters All characters that were previously selected are unselected, and those
previously not selected are selected.
Activate selected characters Choose the characters that should be active in a data analysis

Deactivate selected characters Choose the characters that should not be active in a data analysis

Weight characters A dialog box opens that allows you to set the weight for a range or a single
character
Scale character weights ? Enter an integer value (what does this then do??)

Move selected characters to Beginning

to End

after Cursor

Make sel chars ADDITIVE make selected characters additive (Farris optimization). For a character with
states 0,1, and 2: state 0 to 1 is one step but 0 to 2 is two steps.
Make sel chars NONADDITIVE make selected characters nonadditive (Fitch optimization). For a character
with states 0,1, and 2: transformation between any two states is one step.

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Delete selected characters

Copy selected characters Duplicates selected characters and adds them to the end of the data matrix

Mop uninformative chars select characters that are uninformative (be careful with this! - what you
think is uninformative may not be the same as what the program thinks is
uninformative!)
Ambiguity filter Enter the number of “?” allowed in the data before the character column is
automatically selected.
Number from 0 Labels the first character as character number “0" (as in Hennig86)

Number from 1 Labels the first character as character number “1"

Randomly select caharcters

Sort Characters by Name

Add Characters Adds a character column to the end of the matrix

View
Share char statistics Shows at the top of the screen information for each character, including:
- number of informative steps possible in the character
- maximum number of steps in the character if optimized on a bush
- minimum number of steps in the character
- weights for each character
- whether the character is activated or not activated
- whether the character is currently set as additive or nonadditive
Refresh screen As you do different things with color and selecting things, bits of lines and
colors may fail to completely erase. Refresh will wipe these bits out and
make the view clear again
command dialog ? (I don’t know any of the commands)

DNA (IUPAC) code states are DNA bases “ACGT”

Numeric code states are 0, 1, 2, etc

Cursor settings Brings up a dialog box in which the top three buttons determine which
direction the cursor moves (if at all).
The next three buttons change the way the cursor looks during data entry.
The next buttons allows the taxon name or character state to follow right
behind the cursor. You can also change the colors of the data at the cursor
position.
Matrix background colors

Matrix foreground colors

Color code states

Monochrome states toggles with command above

Change state foreground colors This makes it the different states stand out - and is very helpful if you are
using Winclada to refine alignments
Change state background colors This makes it the different states stand out - and is very helpful if you are
using Winclada to refine alignments
Change taxon select color

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Change char select color

Fonts

Number from 0 Labels both the first character and first taxon as number “0" (as in Hennig86)

Number from 1 Labels both the first character and first taxon as number “1"

Analyze
Heuristics

Ratchet Island hopper (described above)

Farris et al Incongruence test ILD test described above

Bootstrap/Jackknife/CR with NONA Described above

Select random taxa

Unselect random taxa

Select taxa ambiguous for selected

characters
Spawn Send data to another program

Nona

dosClados

dosDada

Hennig86

Piwe

Moleculoid Various commands for aligning and treating gaps

Kill Stops new rachet iterations from forming and finishes the existing runs

Output
Open output file

Close output file

Steps

Describe

Matrix

Comments

Output list of selected taxa

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Matrix chk (taxon)

Export tab-delimited matrix Creates a file of taxa, characters and the states for each taxon. Because tabs
separate each field, the data set can be read by Excell and other common
spreadsheets
Export Fasta File

Export Nexus File

Key
Diagnostic Key

Include selected terminals in key

Exclude selected terminals in key

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