TreeView Help: Importing MEGA tree files

The program MEGA does not output nested parenthesis style tree descriptions that TreeView normally requires. However, it is possible to get MEGA to output a tree description that TreeView can read. The Appendices to the MEGA manual contain a description of how to produce a tree file that will look something like this:

NB0
3
1 A
2 B
3 C
  4 1 2   0.005 0.002
  5 3 4   0.002 0.001


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TreeView will read this tree format. Note that TreeView will not read the text-based tree drawings produced by MEGA, such as:

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