galessiorob / sanskrit-alignment

Sequence alignment and textual reconstruction for Sanskrit texts

Tools for aligning Sanskrit texts

This repository contains helayo, a program for aligning/collating Sanskrit texts, and matrix-editor, a web-based interface for editing those alignments and producing tree-based textual reconstructions.

See the docs at https://chchch.github.io/sanskrit-alignment/docs/ for more information.

directories

• csv2mafft/ — tools for working with MAFFT
• docs/ — the location of the tutorial
• example/ — the example files used in the tutorial
  • example/fastt/ — FASTT files exported from saktumiva.org
  • example/xml/ — those files aligned, which can be opened in the matrix-editor
  • example/trees/ ― phylogenetic trees produced from the alignments
• helayo/ — the alignment program
  • helayo/dist/ ― binaries for MacOS, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows
• matrix-editor/ — an interface to view/edit alignments, export them to be used with phylogenetic tree-building software, and reconstruct texts based on those trees; this can accessed online