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Subject: Re: Release of the MorphoJ program
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mauro Cavalcanti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Dear Dr. Klingenberg,

Looks superb and I will soon try it under Ubuntu Linux 8.04 ("Hardy
Heron"). Just a question - does the MorphoJ distribution package
includes the Java source code? Availability of source code is a
pre-condition to enlist software in the Digital Taxonomy
(http://digitaltaxonomy.infobio.net) website.

With best regards,

2008/6/16 morphmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Release of the MorphoJ program
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:37:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Klingenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: University of Manchester
To: [email protected]

Dear morphometricians

The MorphoJ program package for doing geometric morphometrics, after
epic delays, is finally ready for public release! The goal of the
program is to provide a platform for the most important types of
analyses in geometric morphometrics. The program is written for both 2D
and 3D data, with some inevitable differences in the graphical output
possibilities etc. MorphoJ is available for free under the Apache
License, Version 2.0.

Features presently implemented in the program include:

-- Procrustes fit for 2D and 3D data with and without object symmetry
-- Import/export of data sets and supplementary information
-- Identification of outliers (with choices for including/excluding
observations and fixing some problems)
-- Generating covariance matrices ('standard' and pooled within-group
covariances)
-- Principal component analysis
-- Matrix correlation (including automatic adjustment for
symmetry/asymmetry for configurations with object symmetry)
-- Two-block partial least squares
-- Regression (arbitrary numbers of dependent and independent variables;
also pooled within-group regression, e.g. for allometry correction in
multiple grous)
-- Canonical variate analysis
-- Linear discriminant analysis, including cross-validation
-- Mapping shape variables onto a phylogeny
-- Various analyses concerning the quantitative genetics of shape and
selection for shape

Additional features will be included in future releases.

The software is written in Java, and includes external libraries that
are also written in Java. As a result, the program is more or less
platform-independent. At the moment, there are distributions of the test
versions for Windows, Macintosh OS X (10.4 Tiger and higher) and
Unix/Linux (tested under Ubuntu Linux only). All what you will need to
run it is a recent Java Runtime Environment (minimum Version 5.0) for
your operating system, which is available for free from
http://www.java.com (Windows and Unix/Linux) or comes with your
operating system (Mac; users of Tiger may have to upgrade to version 5.0).

Further information and links for downloading the software are available
from:
http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm

Online documentation is available from:
http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_guide

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the various people who have
tested MorphoJ in the past few years. Their thoroughness and patience
are both greatly appreciated.

I hope this will be useful to morphometricians.

Best wishes,
Chris


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