Trouble processing BI info

[Sone Janse van Rensburg]

Good day.

I wonder if anyone can help me with an issue I have. 

When I submit my BI information, i.e., nexus file, it immediately terminates the task without any additional information. When I view the output, i.e., infle.nex file it only displays my description I entered when inputting my data. 

Do you have any suggestions to why this might have happened?

[Mark Miller]

Hi there,

With MB, and many other codes, the first step is to look at the files stderr.txt and stdout.txt.

Please see the video here: http://www.phylo.org/tools/html5/troubleshoot_demo/index.html

I had a look at the stdout.txt file for your job. The first error message is here:

MrBayes > 

Executing file "infile.nex" 

UNIX line termination 

Longest line length = 1 

Parsing file 

Could not find command "Euglesa" 

There was an error on at least one processor 

The error occurred when reading char. 1-7 on line 1 in the file 'infile.nex' 

Returning execution to command line ... 

Error in command "Execute" MrBayes > A matrix must be specified before the model can be defined Error when setting parameter "Coding" (1)

Then I had a look at your input file, which looks like this:

Euglesa 68 Seq

This is not input that the MB code can recognize.

It is not formatted correctly (MB requires Nexus format), and has no data.

For help using MB, please click the I button next to the tool name.

It will lead you to this link:

www.phylo.org/index.php/tools/mrbayes_xsede.html

You will find information and examples of input there.

Best,

Mark