This tutorial shows how to import non-numerical data in a BIONUMERICS database and link the data to a character type experiment. It illustrates the use of character mappings in BIONUMERICS. Character mappings in BIONUMERICS are used to map categorical names (e.g. Present/Absent, Yes/No, Susceptible/Intermediate/Resistant, etc.) to character values (e.g. 0 and 1) or a range of values to according to predefined criteria.
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Binary character data
MS Excel file, containing presence and absence information for four genes.