Generation Information Of PTC

The Display Layout of PTC

The Menu of PTC


The Control Components of PTC

OK

When the OK button is chosen, the current input for a specific algorithm is set. The Trace and Run buttons are enabled. If users would like to change the input data or to run a different algorithm, the Reset button must be clicked.

Setting

The Setting button is where the parameters of input can be set, such as the number of species, the number of sites, and the species’ names.

The species’ names are separated by spaces. If the number of names is less than the number of species, names are filled with the default names starting with A.

Random

The Random button is very handy to generate a completely random input. When the current Input Data interface is the distance table, it generates real numbers between 0 and 100. When the current Input Data interface is the character table, it generates DNA bases. One can switch between the two interfaces through the Algorithms menu.

Reset

The Reset button stops the current running algorithm, clears all the results, and waits for a new run. The default of the Input Data interface is the same as the previous run. The Save Input and Pop Up Question options are enabled. The Trace and Run buttons are disabled.

Trace

The Trace Button is disabled when the input data is not ready. It allows the users to trace the algorithm step by step. At each step, the main window shows the current state of the algorithm in execution. A Previous State window is shown to allow users to compare the results of the current state and the previous state. Different questions pop up randomly if the Pop Up Question option is set. Users can switch to run the algorithm any time by checking the Run button. The Previous State window and questions are different in each algorithm.

Run

The Run Button is disabled when the input data is not ready. It allows the users to run the algorithms with no interruption. The Previous State window and pop up question will never show up.


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