Welcome the SLIKSMAKER
A program and tutorial designed to help you make the data file for a SLIKS interactive Key. Just follow the steps.
STEP 1. Either enter the name of an existing file that you want to work on.
OR
Begin a new file and enter how many taxa and how many character states you will be entering for each taxon. Then hit the "Make the Input Table" button below.
It is important to note that this version of SLIKS uses only binary (present/absent) characters, a.k.a. character states. For example, rather than having a "Petal Color" character with the states "Red", "Blue" and "Yellow", you will simply have three charater states: "Petals Red", "Petals Blue" and "Petals Yellow".