#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Algorithm::EquivalenceSets; my %groupOfBact = ( group1 => { strain1=>1, strain2=>1, strain4=>1, } , group2 => { strain3=>1, strain4=>1, strain5=>1, } , group3 => { strain6=>1, strain7=>1, }, ); print Dumper(\%groupOfBact); my @sets = map { [ keys %{$groupOfBact{$_}} ] } keys %groupOfBact; print Dumper(\@sets); my @equiv_sets = equivalence_sets(\@sets); print Dumper(\@equiv_sets);