Overview

PhyloZoo provides a unified I/O system for reading and writing phylogenetic data. All I/O-capable classes use the same interface via IOMixin and a central FormatRegistry.

This section is organized as follows:

• I/O operations — The IOMixin protocol, which classes support it, and the basic methods (save, load, to_string, from_string, convert).

• File formats — Supported formats and format families. Some formats form a family: the same file structure (e.g. NEXUS blocks) can represent different data types (distance matrices, alignments, split systems); the class you load or save with determines which variant is used.

• Registering a new format — How to register a new format for an existing or custom class using the FormatRegistry.